How do materials influence learning?

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Wang, M., Vasilyeva, M., & Laski, E.V. (2014). Words matter: Effect of manipulating storybook texts on parent and child math talk. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E.V., Casey, B. M., Ban, J., Betar, S., Cho, H., Lu, L., Wang, M. (accepted pre-registered report). Recruiting spatial-numerical representations to increase arithmetic fluency in low-income students. Developmental Psychology.
Lu, L., Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E.V. (2023). Minor changes, big differences? Effects of manipulating materials on parental math talk. Developmental Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/dev0001550
Laski, E.V., Ermakova, A., Vasilyeva, M., & Halloran, K., (2023). Effects of Using One or More Manipulatives on Strategy Mastery and Generalization. Journal of Experimental Education, 91(2), 1-19. doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2021.1973358
Schiffman, J. & Laski, E.V (2018). Materials count: Linear-spatial materials improve young children’s addition strategies and accuracy, irregular arrays don’t. PlosONE, 13(12), doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208832
Laski, E.V., Jor’dan, J. R., Daoust, C., & Murray, A. (2015). What makes mathematics manipulatives effective? Lessons from cognitive science and Montessori education. SAGE Open, 1-8. doi: 10.1177/2158244015589588 (Translated to Greek in e-journal Montessori Pedagogy and Education, 2022)
Laski, E. V. & Siegler, R.S. (2014). Learning from number board games: You learn what you encode. Developmental Psychology, 50(3), 853-864. doi: 10.1037/a0034321
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