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| Title |
Adolescents’ Functional Numeracy Is Predicted by Their School Entry Number System Knowledge
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0054651 |
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| Authors |
David C. Geary, Mary K. Hoard, Lara Nugent, Drew H. Bailey |
| Abstract |
One in five adults in the United States is functionally innumerate; they do not possess the mathematical competencies needed for many modern jobs. We administered functional numeracy measures used in studies of young adults' employability and wages to 180 thirteen-year-olds. The adolescents began the study in kindergarten and participated in multiple assessments of intelligence, working memory, mathematical cognition, achievement, and in-class attentive behavior. Their number system knowledge at the beginning of first grade was defined by measures that assessed knowledge of the systematic relations among Arabic numerals and skill at using this knowledge to solve arithmetic problems. Early number system knowledge predicted functional numeracy more than six years later (ß = 0.195, p = .0014) controlling for intelligence, working memory, in-class attentive behavior, mathematical achievement, demographic and other factors, but skill at using counting procedures to solve arithmetic problems did not. In all, we identified specific beginning of schooling numerical knowledge that contributes to individual differences in adolescents' functional numeracy and demonstrated that performance on mathematical achievement tests underestimates the importance of this early knowledge. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 74 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 26% |
| Canada | 6 | 8% |
| Uruguay | 6 | 8% |
| Australia | 4 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 4% |
| Hungary | 2 | 3% |
| Ireland | 2 | 3% |
| Chile | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 26 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 62 | 84% |
| Scientists | 9 | 12% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 262 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 251 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 56 | 21% |
| Researcher | 37 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 37 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 6% |
| Other | 37 | 14% |
| Unknown | 61 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 93 | 35% |
| Social Sciences | 33 | 13% |
| Mathematics | 17 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 9 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 29 | 11% |
| Unknown | 75 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 221. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 May 2024.
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#178,695
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#2,665
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#1,141
of 292,643 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#45
of 5,028 outputs
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