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Direct linkNg, Sharon Sui Ngan – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2012
Asian children, including Chinese children, perform better than their English-speaking peers in cross-national mathematics studies. This superior Asian performance is attributed to several factors including cultural beliefs, educational systems and practices, and the Chinese number naming system. Given the limited empirical evidence on pre-school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Number Systems, Arithmetic
Ng, Sharon Sui Ngan – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2014
Chinese pre-school children perform well in learning mathematics compared with English-speaking children. This study investigates the scenes behind Chinese preschool children's mathematics performance using teacher questionnaires and interviews. Results indicated that the Chinese number system appeared to afford advantages to Chinese children in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Teachers
