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Direct linkPatrick Pieng; Lisa M. Weckbacher; Yukari Okamoto – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The present study compared Japanese and U.S. preschool children's knowledge of geometric shapes. The main goal was to explore if differences in shape-naming conventions in Japanese and English could explain differences in children's understanding of geometric shapes. In ancient Chinese-based languages (e.g., Japanese), all standard 2D shapes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Geometric Concepts
