Math at home adds up to achievement in school.

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0404511 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1095-9203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00368075 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Science Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: : Washington, DC : American Association for the Advancement of Science
Original Publication: New York, N.Y. : [s.n.] 1880-

Educational Status* ; Intergenerational Relations* ; Parent-Child Relations*; Mathematics/*education ; Students/*psychology; Anxiety/psychology ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; Knowledge ; Male ; Mobile Applications ; Parents/psychology ; Reading ; Schools ; Teaching/methods

With a randomized field experiment of 587 first-graders, we tested an educational intervention designed to promote interactions between children and parents relating to math. We predicted that increasing math activities at home would increase children's math achievement at school. We tested this prediction by having children engage in math story time with their parents. The intervention, short numerical story problems delivered through an iPad app, significantly increased children's math achievement across the school year compared to a reading (control) group, especially for children whose parents are habitually anxious about math. Brief, high-quality parent-child interactions about math at home help break the intergenerational cycle of low math achievement.
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Comment in: Science. 2016 Mar 11;351(6278):1161. (PMID: 26965619)
Comment in: Science. 2016 Mar 11;351(6278):1161. (PMID: 26965620)

Date Created: 20151010 Date Completed: 20151103 Latest Revision: 20160311

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10.1126/science.aac7427

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