A General Educator Looks at Arithmetic Readiness

Abstract

The term “readiness” is one of the latest additions to the family of educational concepts. The term usually refers to readiness for the mastery of things to be learned in the primary grades, although at the present time the concept is beginning to be used in connection with the learning of almost any topic to be taught in the various grades. Many articles have been published on reading readiness and several tests labelled “reading readiness tests” have been developed within the last decade. More recently, attention is being centered on arithmetic readiness.