Exploring Conceptions of ‘Number Sense’ Evident in Pre-service Programmes for Primary School Teachers: A Review of Texts Used Across 11 University Programmes

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Table 1. Types of texts

	Journal articles	Book	Chapter	Conference paper	Research report	Study guide	Website	Excerpt
Research texts	17	6	4	2	1
Professional texts	2	17	1			2	1	1

Table 2. The relation of the HEIs texts to the three ‘number sense constructs’

INS	INS/ENS	ENS	ENS/MNS	MNS
Carey (2001)	Aunio et al. (2016)—use the term ‘early numeracy skills’ (acknowledge INS, but focus on ENS)	Confer (2005)	Anghileri (2006)	McIntosh et al. (1992)
Dehaene (2011)	Clements and Sarama (2009)	Griffin (2004)	Berch (2005)—also includes INS
Feigenson (2011)	Berch (2005)	Jordan et al. (2007)	Charlesworth and Lind (2010)
Feigenson et al. (2004)	Butterworth (2005)—use the terms ‘numerosity’ and ‘early arithmetic’	McDermott and Rakgokong (1996)	Drews and Hansen (2007)—use the term ‘mathematical thinking’
Izard et al. (2008)	Carey (2001)	Naudé and Meier (2016)	Hopkins et al. (2001)
Spelke (2000)	Fritz et al. (2014)—use the terms ‘key numerical concepts’ and ‘arithmetical calculation’ (acknowledge INS)	Van de Walle and Lovin (2006)	Reys et al. (2009)
	Fritz et al. (2013)—use the terms ‘key numerical concepts’ and ‘arithmetical calculation’ (acknowledge INS)	Wright et al. (2006)	Russell (2000)—focuses on ‘computational fluency’
	Gelman and Gallistel (1978)	Way (2011)	Siemon et al. (2014)
	Sarama and Clements (2009)	Wright et al. (2014)	Sonnabend (2009)
			Van de Walle et al. (2015)
			Van de Walle et al. (2016)
			Williams and Shuard (1982)
			Yessel and Dill (1987)

INS, Innate number sense; ENS, early number sense; MNS, mature number sense.

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