Digital games for learning basic arithmetic at home

From one half to 12th: acquisition of fraction writing in adult education program students and children

“…Both studies found that children read and write fractions as whole numbers, justifying our hypotheses. Finally, we predicted that informal numerical experiences (e.g., outside the school setting) may be associated with fraction writing skills based on previous studies on whole-number knowledge, which have shown that informal mathematics experience contribute to formal mathematics skills in general (e.g., Benavides-Varela et al, 2023;LeFevre et al, 2009;Levine et al, 2011;Napoli & Purpura, 2018;Ramani et al, 2015;Siegler & Ramani, 2009), and fraction skills, specifically (Viegut et al, 2023).…”

“…These results suggest that street vendors' informal learning experiences (i.e., those acquired in their jobs) have conferred these informal mathematics skills upon them. Additionally, children with more informal mathematics experiences, including playing games with numerical content and engaging in mathematics talk, also have higher scores in whole number comparison, estimation, transcoding, and arithmetic tasks (e.g., Benavides-Varela et al, 2023;LeFevre et al, 2009;Levine et al, 2010;Napoli & Purpura, 2018;Ramani et al, 2015;Siegler & Ramani, 2009). In informal settings, students may learn mathematics focused on the practical solutions for problems, and rely more on their intuition, tips from the context, and manipulatives than in formal settings (Hoyles et al, 2001).…”