exploring the impact of phonological awareness on elementary school students’ mathematics achievement

Phonological awareness is the recognition of the sound structure of words, and it is an important and reliable predictor of reading ability. furthermore, it has been identified as a skill related to the development of mathematics skills for children. the present study aimed to explore the effect of phonological awareness on the mathematical performance of persian female students. this research employed a quasi-experimental study, which included a pre- and post-test design with the control group. the population included 140 female second-grade students divided into a control and an experimental group. the experimental group underwent phonological awareness training for ten weeks, each session lasting 30-35 minutes, whereas the control group did not receive any intervention. the findings revealed that instructing phonemic awareness techniques in mathematics had a considerable effect on the operation area of the second-grade female students in elementary school. phonological processing acts as a prerequisite for retrieving mathematical data and a facilitator for mathematical operations, and people with good phonological skills perform better in mathematics.