Levels of early mathematics ability in the preschool period

In this study investigate level of children early mathematic ability and effect of some independent variables such as age, gender, before preschool experience, total number of sibling, birth order, living place (Urban-Rural) and parent's educational level is investigated. Study's findings are expected to be useful in program development, pedagogical intervention and early childhood math education. The descriptive research model was used in this study. Participants were gathered from Hatay/Reyhanlı in 2015/2016 academic year. Participants consist of 191 children from 10 schools. Cluster sampling method was used to improve the representativenes of the survey universe. Test of Early Mathematics Ability -Third Edition- (TEMA-3) which is developed by Ginsburg and Baroody (2003) was used to collect data.Test's reliability and validity study was conducted by Serap Erdogan (2006) for Turkey. The results indicated that the independent variables of gender and birth order are not statistically effect children's math ability scores. The children who have preschool experience have statistically higher score than have not. The children who lives in urban area have higher scores than rural area. The children who's parent's univercity and high school degree have statisticliy higher scores than primary degree. The children who has max one sibling have statistically higher scores than three and more.