Motor activities to improve maths performance in pre-school children with typical development

Flores, Pedro Miguel; Coelho, Eduarda; Mourão-Carvalhal, Isabel; Forte, Pedro

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Motor activities to improve maths performance in pre-school children with typical development

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dc.contributor.author	Flores, Pedro Miguel
dc.contributor.author	Coelho, Eduarda
dc.contributor.author	Mourão-Carvalhal, Isabel
dc.contributor.author	Forte, Pedro
dc.date.accessioned	2024-06-26T15:02:55Z
dc.date.available	2024-06-26T15:02:55Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description.abstract	Poor maths skills are associated with negative outcomes throughout life, such as lower academic qualifications, decreased professional success and socio-economic results. Mathematical skills emerge continuously throughout childhood and those that children acquire in pre-school are crucial for activities that support analytical thinking, problem-solving and reasoning and argumentation skills. Many of these activities are related to motor skills, since certain cognitive and motor areas of the brain are activated simultaneously when solving maths problems. Of all motor skills, visuomotor integration skills have been documented as those that are most consistently positively and significantly associated with maths performance in pre-school children. These skills are influenced by visual perception (spatial and attention skills), fine motor coordination and gross motor skills. Early intervention can improve visuomotor integration skills in pre-school children. Of all skills that make up visuomotor integration, spatial skills, in addition to being the first skills to influence numerical knowledge and the recognition of geometric shapes, are also those skills that form part of the majority of programs and activities to be worked on with pre-school children for the development of mathematical concepts. However, most intervention programs or activities to develop spatial skills are carried out in the classroom, usually through activities involving handling small objects. In this sense and given the significant association between visuomotor integration skills and gross motor skills, the main objective of this study was to list a set of activities to develop spatial skills, with a strong involvement of gross motor skills, in a classroom, playground or home context.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	Flores, Pedro; Coelho, Eduarda; Mourão-Carvalhal, Isabel; Forte, Pedro (2024). Motor activities to improve maths performance in pre-school children with typical development. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 15, p. 1-16	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1332741	pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn	1664-1078
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10198/29944
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Frontiers	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Gross motor skills	pt_PT
dc.subject	Mathematical skills	pt_PT
dc.subject	Pre-school	pt_PT
dc.subject	Spatial skills	pt_PT
dc.subject	Visuomotor integration skills	pt_PT
dc.subject	Research Subject Categories::MATHEMATICS	pt_PT
dc.title	Motor activities to improve maths performance in pre-school children with typical development	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.title	Frontiers in Psychology	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	15	pt_PT
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