Connections between Mathematics and Reading Development: Numerical Cognition Mediates Relations between Foundational Competencies and Later Academic Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: We examined longitudinal relations between 1^st-grade cognitive predictors (early nonverbal reasoning, processing speed, listening comprehension, working memory, calculation skill, word-problem solving, word-reading fluency, attentive behavior, and numerical cognition) and 2^nd-grade academic outcomes (calculations, word-problem solving, and word reading) in 370 children (M _age = 6.55 years, SD _age = 0.33 years at the start of the study) who were identified as at-risk or not-at-risk for mathematics disability. Path analysis mediation models revealed that numerical cognition, assessed at an intermediary timepoint, mediated the effects of processing speed, working memory, calculation skill, word-problem solving, and attentive behavior o

SUBMITTER: Spencer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8845496 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature