Spatial, Mathematical, and Relational Language

By systematically varying the spatial features of proportions, we provide insight into the mechanisms that underlie proportional reasoning and highlight important interactions between spatial, numerical, and relational information.

The narrow interpretation of before and after in U.S. children’s numerical judgments is not due to their interpretation of ordinality more generally, but tied to a specific feature of numerical sequences.

Variations in parent support and spatial language across Typical and Highly Alignable shape puzzles.

Children’s ability to utilize and understand the quantified, “most,” is dependent on whether the stimuli is continuous or discrete and if there is any interfering information.

Children understand magnitude (bigger/smaller, more/less) and ordinal (before/after) vocabulary differently, often performing better and with a less narrow interpretation when utlizing mangnitude vocabulary.

Labeling non-symbolic proportions increases likelihood of matching displays based on proportion as compared to whole number information.