The child's understanding of number

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The child's understanding of number

Rochel Gelman and C.R. Gallistel

Harvard University Press, c1986

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. vii, 246-254

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780674116368

Description

The authors report the results of some half dozen years of research into when and how children acquire numerical skills. They provide a new set of answers to these questions, and overturn much of the traditional wisdom on the subject.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780674116375

Description

The authors report the results of some half dozen years of research into when and how children acquire numerical skills. They provide a new set of answers to these questions, and overturn much of the traditional wisdom on the subject.

Table of Contents

1. Focus on the Preschooler 2. Training Studies Reconsidered 3. More Capacity Than Meets the Eye: Direct Evidence 4. Number Concepts in the Preschooler? 5. What Numerosities Can the Young Child Represent? 6. How Do Young Children Obtain Their Representations of Numerosity? 7. The Counting Model 8. The Development of the How-To-Count Principles 9. The Abstraction and Order-Irrelevance Counting Principles 10. Reasoning about Number 11. Formal Arithmetic and the Young Child's Understanding of Number 12. What Develops and How Conclusions References Index

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Details

  • NCID
    BA01343108
  • ISBN
    • 0674116364
    • 0674116372
  • LCCN
    85027506
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 260 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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