Möhring, Wenke Frick, Andrea Newcombe, Nora S. 2017-12-22 The present study investigated the role of spatial scaling and proportional-reasoning skills in children’s number-line estimations. Proportional strategies in number-line estimations might suggest that correlations between number-line knowledge and scaling are driven by proportional thinking. However, analyses of data on spatial scaling, proportional reasoning, counting skills, and number-line knowledge from 5- to 7-year-old children (N = 65) showed significant correlations between spatial-scaling performance and number-line knowledge, even after age, counting skills, common method variance, and proportional reasoning were accounted for. Thus, spatial scaling is related to variance in number-line estimations due to mechanisms beyond proportional reasoning. The ability to mentally transform magnitudes may be the additional common underlying process. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/307463 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/307463/files/mohringfricknewcombe_cd18_pp_0.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.12.001 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Cognitive Development. - 2018, vol. 45, p. 57-67 Spatial scaling Proportional reasoning Number line Map use Spatial cognition Cognitive development info:eu-repo/classification/udc/159.9 Spatial scaling, proportional thinking, and numerical understanding in 5- to 7-year-old children http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501