No Association Between the Home Math Environment and Numerical and Patterning Skills in a Large and Diverse Sample of 5- to 6-year-olds.

Selecting a large and diverse sample of 5-6-year-old preschool children (179 boys and 174 girls; = 70.03 months, = 3.43), we aimed to extend previous findings on variability in children's home math environment (i.

Verbal and action-based measures of kindergartners' SFON and their associations with number-related utterances during picture book reading.

Background: Young children's spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) as measured by experimental tasks is related to their mathematics achievement. This association is hypothetically explained by children's self-initiated practice in number recognition during everyday activities. As such, experimentally measured SFON should be associated with SFON exhibited during everyday activities and play.