This study aimed to develop a scale for measuring parents’ perceived goals for early mathematics learning and to examine whether parents’ perceived goals were related to their socioeconomic background and their children's motivation to learn mathematics. Three types of goals—attitude, reasoning, and efficiency goals—were identified in two samples of parents of young children. The findings showed that, although all groups of parents rated efficiency as the least important goal, parents with different levels of education showed significant differences in how they rated the importance of efficiency goal. The importance that the parents attached to the three types of goals interacted with each other in predicting the strength of their children's motivation to learn mathematics. Implications on how to maintain young children's motivation to learn mathematics are discussed.

这项研究旨在建立一个量表，用于测量父母对早期数学学习的感知目标，并检验父母的感知目标是否与他们的社会经济背景以及孩子学习数学的动机有关。在两个幼儿父母的样本中确定了三种类型的目标，即态度，推理和效率目标。研究结果表明，尽管所有父母组都将效率视为最不重要的目标，但受过不同教育程度的父母在评价效率目标的重要性方面存在显着差异。父母对这三种目标的重视在预测孩子学习数学动机的强度方面相互影响。对如何维持幼儿的影响