3-068 - The Home numeracy environment: Social and contextual influences on children's early mathematical development

Session Type: Poster Symposium

Integrative Statement

Children’s home environments influence their mathematical development, but details about the processes responsible for the development of particular math skills are lacking. Much of the research extant has been highly constrained and does not explicate how the social environment frames and mediates mathematical experiences. Parents play a critical role in the home numeracy environment, however, the ways they engage children to promote math development may vary both within and between population groups and across contexts.
This symposium addresses the effects of the home numeracy environment on young children’s mathematical development. Presenters will report research with samples of children (toddlers through preschool) from different countries, different regions within the United States, different population densities (urban and rural), and different SES levels. Both longitudinal and cross-sectional studies are included.
Specific questions addressed include:
1. What parental behaviors promote children’s mathematical performance?
2. To what extent do broad contextual factors (demographic, geographic), physical and social affordances of settings (materials, activities) and parental characteristics (attitudes, expectations) influence parental behavior connected with math development?
3. What are the mediating relationships between parent and children behavior and children’s mathematical performance?
4. What is the relationship between the home environment, mathematical development, and the development of other cognitive processes? Is the influence of parents through the home numeracy environment specific to mathematical development or is it similar across cognitive domains?
5. How does the relationship between the home environment and different mathematical domains vary over time? What developmental changes occur in these relationships?

Sub Unit

• Education, Schooling

Chairs

• Belinda Blevins-Knabe, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

• Jessica Shumway, Utah State University

Individual Presentations

• Parent stress, parent perception of child behavior and provision of home numeracy activities - Presenting Author: Jacob A. Esplin, Utah State University; Ann M. Berghout Austin, Utah State University

• Maternal and paternal influences on preschoolers’ numeracy performance: Math anxiety, home numeracy practices, and expectations - Presenting Author: Maria Ines Susperreguy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; MARIA FRANCISCA DEL RIO, UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES; Katherine Strasser, Pontificia Universidd Católica de Chile; Viviana Salinas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• Influences of inquiry-based guidance training on parental support of children’s mathematical and scientific reasoning at home - Presenting Author: Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Elon University; Lauren Westerberg, Elon University; Kaitlin Rose Sands, The University of Texas at Dallas; Melissa Mitschka, Elon University

• Parents’ knowledge of their preschool child’s numeracy skills - Presenting Author: Amy R. Napoli, Purdue University; David J. Purpura, Purdue University

• Opportunities in the first 3 years of life for enrichment in the home environment and the development of math skills - Presenting Author: Robert Corwyn, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Robert Bradley, Arizona State University

• Children’s early mathematical development in a rural home numeracy environment - Presenting Author: Brionne Neilson, Utah State University; Belinda Blevins-Knabe, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Ann M. Berghout Austin, Utah State University; Jacob A. Esplin, Utah State University; Lori Loesch, Utah State University