K. Fuson, R. Gelman, C. Gallistel
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Preschoolers' understanding of number concepts involves abstraction, order-irrelevance counting principles, and how-to-count rules.
Abstract
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
Citation format
FUSON, K.; GELMAN, R.; GALLISTEL, C. The child's understanding of number. JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, 1979, 10: 383.