| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-254) and index. |
| Summary |
Annotation 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. |
| Contents |
""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"" |
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""12. What Develops and How""""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Number concept.
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Number concept. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gallistel, C. R., 1941-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gelman, Rochel. Child's understanding of number. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1986 0674116372 9780674116375 (DLC) 85027506 (OCoLC)12839996 |
| ISBN |
9780674037533 (electronic book) |
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0674037537 (electronic book) |
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