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Parents and families are constantly reminded about the importance of reading with their children, but what about math? Like reading difficulties, problems with math can delay children’s’ educational progress and jeopardize future outcomes.
“The advice and guidelines for how we can support children’s math skill development are much less clear and universally known and practiced than actions meant to support reading. Lots of parents read their kids a bedtime story, but what is the math equivalent?” asked Mia Daucourt, doctoral student, Research Assistant at the Florida Learning Disabilities Research Center, and first author of The Home Math Environment and Children’s Math Achievement: A Meta-Analysis, recently published in Psychological Bulletin.
To explore why some children do well while others struggle once math is introduced in school, Daucourt and her colleagues examined the home math environment (HME), a likely factor that could explain these early differences.
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