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  1. How do parents initiate and sustain math-related conversations with preschoolers? Employing conversation analysis to examine parent–child math talk.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, March 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Elida Laski

  2. Navigating Trade-Offs in Early Math: How Informational Priming Influences Parent–Child Interaction

    Article • Child Development, November 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Elida Laski

  3. Compensatory Relation Between Executive Function and Fluid Intelligence in Predicting Math Learning

    Article • Education Sciences, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Elida Laski

  4. Materials and contexts may impact parent math input in play activities

    Article • Developmental Psychology, May 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Linxi Lu, Elida Laski

  5. Spatial–Numerical Magnitude Estimation Mediates Early Sex Differences in the Use of Advanced Arithmetic Strategies

    Article • Journal of Intelligence, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Elida Laski

  6. What children’s number naming errors tell us about early understanding of multidigit numbers

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, December 2022, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  7. Socioeconomic Variations in the Frequency of Parent Number Talk: A Meta-Analysis

    Article • Education Sciences, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Pamela Davis-Kean, Elida Laski

  8. Leveraging measurement instruction to develop kindergartners’ numerical magnitude knowledge.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, October 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Elida Laski

  9. Effects of Using One or More Manipulatives on Strategy Mastery and Generalization

    Article • The Journal of Experimental Education, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Elida Laski

  10. Digging deeper: Shared deep structures of early literacy and mathematics involve symbolic mapping and relational reasoning

    Article • Early Childhood Research Quarterly, January 2019, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  11. Materials count: Linear-spatial materials improve young children’s addition strategies and accuracy, irregular arrays don’t

    Article • PLOS One, December 2018, PLOS

    Elida Laski

  12. Distinct Pathways From Parental Beliefs and Practices to Children’s Numeric Skills

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Development, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Elida Laski

  13. Not Sure Which Rubric to Use? Consider Cognitive Science Principles of Learning

    Article • Kappa Delta Pi Record, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Elida Laski

  14. Children's use of decomposition strategies mediates the visuospatial memory and arithmetic accuracy relation

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, December 2016, Wiley

    Elida Laski

  15. An Explanation of the Distinction Between Developmental Factors and Mechanisms

    Article • Psychology Learning & Teaching, December 2016, SAGE Publications

    Elida Laski

  16. Kindergartners' base-10 knowledge predicts arithmetic accuracy concurrently and longitudinally

    Article • Learning and Individual Differences, August 2016, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  17. Here, but not there: Cross-national variability of gender effects in arithmetic

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, June 2016, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  18. Longitudinal Comparison of Montessori versus Non-Montessori Students’ Place-Value and Arithmetic Knowledge

    Article • Journal of Montessori Research, May 2016, The University of Kansas

    Elida Laski

  19. Arithmetic Accuracy in Children From High- and Low-Income Schools

    Article • AERA Open, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Elida Laski

  20. Development of children’s early understanding of numeric structure

    Article • Psychology in Russia State of Art, January 2016, Russian Psychological Society

    Elida Laski

  21. When prior knowledge interferes, inhibitory control matters for learning: The case of numerical magnitude representations.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, November 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Elida Laski

  22. What Makes Mathematics Manipulatives Effective? Lessons From Cognitive Science and Montessori Education

    Article • SAGE Open, June 2015, SAGE Publications

    Elida Laski

  23. Reexamining the language account of cross-national differences in base-10 number representations

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, January 2015, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  24. Computational fluency and strategy choice predict individual and cross-national differences in complex arithmetic.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Elida Laski

  25. Preschoolers’ strategies for solving visual pattern tasks

    Article • Early Childhood Research Quarterly, January 2015, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  26. Early use of decomposition for addition and its relation to base-10 knowledge

    Article • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, September 2014, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  27. Number line estimation and mental addition: Examining the potential roles of language and education

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  28. Learning from number board games: You learn what you encode.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Elida Laski

  29. Mathematics Teacher Educators' Perceptions and Use of Cognitive Research

    Article • Mind Brain and Education, February 2013, Wiley

    Elida Laski

  30. Spatial skills as a predictor of first grade girls' use of higher level arithmetic strategies

    Article • Learning and Individual Differences, February 2013, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  31. Young girls’ arithmetic and spatial skills: The distal and proximal roles of family socioeconomics and home learning experiences

    Article • Early Childhood Research Quarterly, July 2012, Elsevier

    Elida Laski

  32. Math Activity Questionnaire

    Article • January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Elida Laski

  33. Spatial Activity Questionnaire

    Article • January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Elida Laski

  34. Is 27 a Big Number? Correlational and Causal Connections Among Numerical Categorization, Number Line Estimation, and Numerical Magnitude Comparison

    Article • Child Development, November 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Elida Laski