Play is critical for children's learning, but there is significant disagreement over whether and
how parents should guide children's play. The objective of the current study was to examine …

Children's own spontaneous mathematical activities are crucial for their mathematical
development. Mathematical thinking and learning does not only occur in explicitly …

We examine children's (N= 40; 4–8-years-old) spontaneous interactions with parents and
museum staff while exploring artifacts in a living history museum. Our aim was to connect the …

Which dimension of a set of objects is more salient to young children: number or size? The
'Build‐A‐Train'task was developed and used to examine whether children spontaneously …

By the time children start formal education there are already substantial individual
differences in their mathematical skills (eg, Ginsburg et al., 2008; Klibanoff et al., 2006) …

Geologic time has been identified as a threshold concept in geoscience (Teed and Slattery
2011) for those who are pursuing careers in geoscience. It is such an intricate concept that …

Reading and writing constitute two functions whose inter-relationship has been an object of
study during the last decade. However, beyond their relationship to each other, the evolution …

Decades of research find that young children look longer at surprising events than expected
ones, and more recent work finds that these surprising events—ones that violate children's …

Play is critical for children's learning, but there is significant disagreement over whether and
how parents should guide children's play. In an observational study of parent-child …