Language and Culture in Mathematical Cognition, First Edition focuses on the role of linguistic and cultural factors in math cognition and development. It covers a wide range of topics, including analogical mapping in numerical development, arithmetic fact retrieval in the bilingual brain, cross-cultural comparisons of mathematics achievement, the shaping of numerical processing by number word construction, the influence of Head Start programs, the mathematical skills of children with specific language impairments, the role of culture and language in creating associations between number and space, and electrophysiological studies of linguistic traces in core knowledge at the neural level.

• Includes cutting-edge findings, innovative measures, recent methodological advances and groundbreaking theoretical developments
• Synthesizes research from various subdomains of math cognition research
• Covers the full complement of research in mathematical thinking and learning
• Informs researchers, scholars, educators, students and policymakers

1. Introduction: The Role of Language and Culture in Mathematical Cognition and Development2. The Effects of Language on Number Word Learning and Estimation3. Arithmetic in the Bilingual Brain4. Linguistic Traces in Core Numerical Knowledge5. Number Knowledge in Preschool Dual-Language Learners from Low-Income Households6. Mathematical Skills of Children with Specific Language Impairments: Testing Developmental Theory7. Contributions of Culture and Language to the Development of Space-Number Associations8. How Culturally Predominant Reading Direction and Number Word Construction Influence Numerical Cognition and Mathematics Performance9. The Cross-National Learning Gap: Cognitive Mechanisms of Cultural Differences in Mathematics10. Cultural Comparisons of Children's Mathematics Achievement: Numerical Language and Core Knowledge11. Disentangling Linguistic and Experiential Factors as Predictors of Young Children's Early Numeracy Skills12. Counting Systems as Cultural Tools for Numerical Cognition13. Linguistic and Cultural Processes in Elementary Mathematics: Studies from a Remote Papua New Guinea Community