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Peer reviewedMiura, Irene T.; Okamoto, Yukari; Vlahovic-Stetic, Vesna; Kim, Chungsoon C.; Han, John Hye – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
This study compared 6- to 7-year-olds' knowledge of numerical fractions prior to school instruction in Croatia, Korea, and United States. Results suggested that the Korean vocabulary of fractions may influence the meaning children ascribe to numerical fractions and that this results in children being able to associated numerical fractions with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Fractions
Peer reviewedPaik, Jae H.; Mix, Kelly S. – Child Development, 2003
Two experiments tested claim that transparency of Korean fraction names promotes fraction concepts. Findings indicated that U.S. and Korean first- and second-graders erred similarly on a fraction-identification task, by treating fractions as whole numbers. Korean children performed at chance when whole-number representation was included but…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
