An article by Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, associate professor of psychology, and Elon alumni Jackie Nelson and Charity Bumpass has been published in an online journal.
Titled “Quarters are What You Put into the Bubble Gum Machine: Numeracy Interactions during Parent-Child Play,” the article appears in the journal Early Childhood Research and Practice.
The study investigated numeracy exchanges that occurred spontaneously during parent-child play with preschool children and their mothers. Parents and children in this study demonstrated that numeracy-related interactions occur naturally in discourse during play, and that play is an important social context for guidance of numeracy development.
Vandermaas-Peeler studies young children’s development in sociocultural context, with a particular focus on preschoolers’ guided participation in activities with adults and peers.
Nelson is a graduate student in the human development and family studies program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Bumpass is a graduate student at Western Carolina University in the school psychology program. Both were undergraduate psychology majors at Elon when this research was conducted.
A link to the article appears below: