ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
An approach to preschool task design: how narrative reveals the functionality of early math concepts.
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Many preschoolers can count, yet formal mastery does not mean that counting is used meaningfully or embedded in other activities. Story-based tasks can reveal whether a child is acting formally, yet the literature lacks clear guidance on how such tasks should be designed. Drawing on CHAT, we identified five principles for constructing narrative-based tasks and developed a task battery designed to assess three levels of counting mastery: formal (targeting only operational mastery of counting), reasonable (addressing orientation to essential conditions of counting), and functional (capturing whether the child can use counting as a tool embedded in another activity). The battery was piloted on 56 older preschoolers (M = 68.9 months, SD = 3.86). To validate the battery, we assessed executive functions (working memory, inhibition, cognitive flexibility) using NEPSY-II and DCCS-expecting formal and reasonable levels to replicate known correlations with early mathematics, while the functional level might show a different pattern. The task battery successfully differentiated among the three levels of counting mastery: performance decreased systematically from formal to reasonable to functional (
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