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lxviiOverall scoring on pre – mathematical concepts• About 32 percent of children in intervention , 35 percent in intermediate and 54 percentin control AWCs, have scored upto 25% marks (out of 19) on pre – mathematicalconcepts, showing no gender differentials. Intervention AWCs are marginally betterthan intermediate but far better than control AWCs (Table 7.5)• SC and OBC children are better in all the categories of AWCs than other children (Table7. 6).Table 7.5: Distribution of children aged 5-5.5 years by school readiness scores for pre – mathematicalconcept according to gender of the child(Percentage)School readinessscores for pre –mathematicalconceptTotal Janjgir and korbaControl district (Raigarh)Intervention AWCs Intermediate AWCs Control AWCsMale Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total(n=) 192 194 386 232 172 404 240 218 458< 25% 32.8 30.9 31.9 36.6 33.7 35.4 54.2 53.2 53.725.1-50% 51 49.5 50.3 45.7 50 47.5 37.9 35.3 36.750.1-75% 14.6 19.6 17.1 17.7 16.3 17.1 7.9 11 9.4>75% 1.6 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0.5 0.2Table 7.6: Distribution of children aged 5-5.5 years by school readiness scores for pre – mathematicalconcept according to caste(Percentage)School readinessTotal Janjgir and korbaControl district (Raigarh)scores for pre –mathematical conceptIntervention AWCs Intermediate AWCs Control AWCsSC ST OBC SC ST OBC SC ST OBC(n=) 77 105 197 67 133 191 148 76 227< 25% 28.6 37.1 30.5 25.4 48.1 32.5 54.7 61.8 51.125.1-50% 51.9 48.6 51.3 46.3 44.4 49.2 35.1 34.2 37.450.1-75% 19.5 13.3 17.8 28.4 7.5 18.3 10.1 3.9 11>75% 0 1 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0.4Figure 1: School readiness scores for pre - mathematicalconcepts>75%0.200.850.1-75%25.1-50%9.417.117.136.747.550.3Control AWCsIntermediate AWCsIntervention AWCs< 25%35.431.953.70 20 40 60Rediness scores for pre- mahematical conceptsOverall scoring on number conceptsBaseline Study Of Early Childhood Care And Development Project In Chattisgarh