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ERIC Number: ED629942
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Dec
Pages: 8
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Children's Durational Organization of Everyday Experiences: A Mathematical Perspective of a Linguistic Study
Smith, Amy
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (42nd, Mazatlán, Mexico and Online, May 27-Jun 6, 2021)
How do children reason about the durations of daily experiences? Following Tillman and Barner's (2015) linguistic study, three children (age five, six, and seven) were asked to organize four everyday activities from the shortest duration to longest duration: watching a movie, brushing their teeth, sleeping at night, and eating lunch. After creating their "timeline", each child was asked why they ordered the events as they did. By allowing the children the opportunity to reflect on common experiences and explain how they reasoned about durations, we can begin to recognize how children understand time as a quantity. Their responses showed that reflections on lived durational experiences were heavily influenced by physical acts, such as speed of actions or movement of the sun. These findings were consistent with past research on children's conception of physical time (Long & Kamii, 2001; Piaget, 1969). [For the complete proceedings, see ED629884.]
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
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