Different Components of Working Memory Have Different Relationships with Different Mathematical Skills

Autor/inn/en	Simmons, Fiona R.; Willis, Catherine; Adams, Anne-Marie
Titel	Different Components of Working Memory Have Different Relationships with Different Mathematical Skills
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111 (2012) 2, S.139-155 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2011.08.011
Schlagwörter	Phonology; Short Term Memory; Arithmetic; Mathematics Skills; Young Children; Grade 1; Elementary School Students; Grade 3; Elementary School Mathematics; Numbers; Visual Perception; Spatial Ability; Predictor Variables; Cognitive Processes; Cognitive Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fonologie; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Addition; Arithmetik; Arithmetikunterricht; Rechnen; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Frühe Kindheit; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Elementare Mathematik; Schulmathematik; Zahlenraum; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Prädiktor; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	A comprehensive working memory battery and tests of mathematical skills were administered to 90 children--41 in Year 1 (5-6 years of age) and 49 in Year 3 (7-8 years of age). Working memory could explain statistically significant variance in number writing, magnitude judgment, and single-digit arithmetic, but the different components of working memory had different relationships with the different skills. Visual-spatial sketchpad (VSSP) functioning predicted unique variance in magnitude judgments and number writing. Central executive functioning explained unique variance in the addition accuracy of Year 1 children. The unique variance explained in Year 3 multiplication explained by phonological loop functioning just missed conventional levels of significance (p = 0.06). The results are consistent with the VSSP having a role in the development of number writing and magnitude judgments but a lesser role in early arithmetic. (Contains 8 tables.) (As Provided).
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