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Oers, Bert van – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1996
An observational study investigated which teaching opportunities within a role play activity could be considered valuable for the improvement of mathematical thinking. Observations indicated many such opportunities, suggesting that if teachers manage to make use of such teaching opportunities, children can explicitly reflect on the relationship…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Early Childhood Education, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities
Scandura, Joseph M. – 1974
In a study of mathematics learning, taking a rule-oriented approach, students were taught to trade objects of type A for objects of types B and C. Children ranging from ages 7 to 9 were given rules for converting A to B and B to C and were then presented with the task of converting A to C. Of the 30, 6 succeeded. Of the 24 who failed, half were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Deduction