Story by Story -- Sharing the Human Experience
Published by The Advocacy Committee of the
The World Enriched Through Storytelling
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Story by Story -- Sharing the Human Experience |
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Published by The Advocacy Committee of the
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Imaginative Children Better in Math
Summary:
Math and storytelling may seem like very different abilities, but a new study by
University of Waterloo scientist Daniela O'Neill suggests that preschool children's early storytelling abilities are predictive of their mathematical ability two years later. The study has just been published in the June 2004 issue of the journal First Language.
O'Neill looked at several aspects of children's storytelling ability.
Two years later, the children were brought back to the laboratory and were given a number of tests of academic achievement that included a test of mathematical achievement. What O'Neill found was that those children who scored highly on the mathematics test had also scored highly on certain measures of their storytelling ability two years earlier.
This study suggests that building strong storytelling skills early in the preschool years may be helpful in preparing children for learning mathematics when they enter school.
O'Neill said,
It is also a nice finding, I think, because storytelling is something every parent can easily do and foster with their children, without the need to buy any fancy toys or materials."
Pioneering developmental psychologist Jerome Bruner has written:
Subjects Covered:
education
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