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Which of the following is true of preschoolers math knowledge?
 
  a. Low-SES preschoolers and middle income preschoolers are equally likely to play board games that build math skills.
  b. Compared to middle-SES preschool children, low-SES preschool children are less skilled at math.
  c. Reading skill at entry to kindergarten is better than math skill for predicting later academic achievement.
  d. Because of core knowledge, it is not useful to directly teach math skills to preschoolers.

Question 2

Studies showing that six-month-olds gaze longer at a screen that shows dots that change in number than a screen that shows the same number of dots that change color suggest that
 
  a. infants can count to ten.
 
   b. infants can do simple multiplication and division.
 
   c. number sense develops through modeling and experience with concrete objects.
   d. number sense is a core domain.



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: d





 

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