The Child's Understanding of Number

This book deals primarily with the preschool child's conception of number and how that conception develops. This central concern is, however, embedded in a larger framework, namely, an overriding interest in early cognitive capacities and their relationship to subsequent capacities. The initial chapters develop this broader framework.

List 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

About the author

Rochel Gelman and C. R. Gallistel

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: C R Gallistel, C. R. Gallistel, Charles R Gallistel, Charles R. Gallistel, Rochel Gelman
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1986
• EAN: 9780674116375
• ISBN: 978-0-674-11637-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs