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Theodosiou, Christine Pinelopi (2013)

Parents’ Attitudes towards Mathematics in Pre-school Children

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

In the current study the main goal is to point out how parents of pre-schoolers encounter the subject of Math at home. Eighty eight Greek parents of pre-school children filled in a questionnaire with several questions referring to topics like the frequency with which they engage in numeracy activities at home or their academic expectations for their child. The main findings indicate that gender of the child does not play a significant role on the academic expectations that their parents have for them before entering Kindergarten. However, those expectations are positively correlated to the frequency that number activities occurred at home.

Parents

Mathematics

Pre-school

Author

Theodosiou, Christine Pinelopi

Note

The Questionnaire used to this study is a part of a questionnaire named “Language in the brain of children: Do images help to learn and remember words?” which is used for an international study conducted in Greece, Hungary and the Netherlands.

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Learning Problems & Impairments

Supervisors

Bus, A.G.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en