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Szkudlarek, Emily; Brannon, Elizabeth M. – Child Development, 2021
Children struggle with exact, symbolic ratio reasoning, but prior research demonstrates children show surprising intuition when making approximate, nonsymbolic ratio judgments. In the current experiment, eighty-five 6- to 8-year-old children made approximate ratio judgments with dot arrays and numerals. Children were adept at approximate ratio…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Logical Thinking
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Damon, William – Child Development, 1975
In order to investigate the relationship between the development of justice (moral) conceptions and the development of mathematical and physical (logical) conceptions, 50 children(ages 4-8) were administered a "positive justice" interview and five of Piaget's concrete-operational mathematical and physical tasks. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Justice