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Denitza Dramkin; Darko Odic – Developmental Science, 2024
As adults, we represent and think about number, space, and time in at least two ways: our intuitive--but imprecise--perceptual representations, and the slowly learned--but precise--number words. With development, these representational formats interface, allowing us to use precise number words to estimate imprecise perceptual experiences. We test…
Descriptors: Child Development, Numbers, Vocabulary Development, Numeracy
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Brandon G. McMillan; Nicholas C. Johnson; Jennifer Ricketts Schexnayder – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
The development of young children's counting has been extensively researched, yet detailed studies that examine development over multiple years are curiously absent from the literature. This research examined 15 preschoolers' (ages 3-4) use of number words as they engaged in two counting tasks, an oral counting task and counting a collection of 31…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Young Children, Computation, Mathematics Skills
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Hojnoski, Robin L.; Polignano, Joy C.; Caskie, Grace I. L. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study examined age-based developmental trajectories of four key number sense (NS) skills within an accelerated longitudinal design. Using data from 408 preschoolers, ages 45 to 68 months, linear and latent basis growth curves were evaluated. Results indicated growth across NS skills was best represented as nonlinear for all…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Children, Age Differences
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Lavie, Irit; Sfard, Anna – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2019
Conceptualizing numbers as discursive constructs generated in, and for the sake of, communication, we investigated the development of the numerical discourse of Milo, a boy who was 2 years and 8 months old when we first met him and whom we then followed for 18 months. Our analyses of the child's evolving responses to the question "Where is…
Descriptors: Numbers, Discourse Analysis, Males, Preschool Children
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Nelissen, Jo M. C. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
Historically there has always been a lively research discussion on whether the development of number concept should be considered as innate, or whether the catalyst for the development of the number concept -- and for counting -- is hearing number words combined with seeing concrete examples. One can recognize these theories as the nativist view…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Numeracy, Number Concepts, Young Children
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Satsangi, Rajiv; Bofferding, Laura – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2017
A lack of numerical knowledge early on can impede a child's academic development. In past research, playing linear board games improved children's understanding of numerical relations, which the authors theorised could extend to children with autism spectrum disorder. For this pilot study, 10 children played a board game where they moved tokens…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Numeracy, Child Development, Autism
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Niklas, Frank; Cohrssen, Caroline; Tayler, Collette – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Young children develop numeracy competencies during interactions with more knowledgeable others. Such interactions typically occur in the home numeracy environment (HNE). In this study a nonintensive intervention procedure was developed to improve both the HNE and numerical competencies. All parents of 113 Australian children…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Family Environment
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Purpura, David J.; Logan, Jessica A. R. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Both mathematical language and the approximate number system (ANS) have been identified as strong predictors of early mathematics performance. Yet, these relations may be different depending on a child's developmental level. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relations between these domains across different levels of ability.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Development, Number Systems, Mathematics
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Peucker, Sabine; Weißhaupt, Steffi – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2013
The development of numerical concepts is described from infancy to preschool age. Infants a few days old exhibit an early sensitivity for numerosities. In the course of development, nonverbal mental models allow for the exact representation of small quantities as well as changes in these quantities. Subitising, as the accurate recognition of small…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numeracy, Child Development, Infants
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van Marle, Kristy; Chu, Felicia W.; Li, Yaoran; Geary, David C. – Developmental Science, 2014
The study assessed the relations among acuity of the inherent approximate number system (ANS), performance on measures of symbolic quantitative knowledge, and mathematics achievement for a sample of 138 (64 boys) preschoolers. The Weber fraction (a measure of ANS acuity) and associated task accuracy were significantly correlated with mathematics…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Development, Number Systems, Numeracy
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Berteletti, Ilaria; Lucangeli, Daniela; Piazza, Manuela; Dehaene, Stanislas; Zorzi, Marco – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Children's sense of numbers before formal education is thought to rely on an approximate number system based on logarithmically compressed analog magnitudes that increases in resolution throughout childhood. School-age children performing a numerical estimation task have been shown to increasingly rely on a formally appropriate, linear…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numeracy, Computation, Preschool Children
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Kolkman, Meijke E.; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; Leseman, Paul P. M. – Learning and Instruction, 2013
For learning math, non-symbolic quantity skills, symbolic skills and the mapping between number symbols and non-symbolic quantities are all important precursors. Little is known, however, about the interrelated development of these skills. The current study focuses on numerical development by: (a) investigating the structure of non-symbolic,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Education
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Levine, Susan C.; Suriyakham, Linda Whealton; Rowe, Meredith L.; Huttenlocher, Janellen; Gunderson, Elizabeth A. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Prior studies indicate that children vary widely in their mathematical knowledge by the time they enter preschool and that this variation predicts levels of achievement in elementary school. In a longitudinal study of a diverse sample of 44 preschool children, we examined the extent to which their understanding of the cardinal meanings of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Academic Achievement, Numbers, Preschool Children
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Slusser, Emily B.; Sarnecka, Barbara W. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
An essential part of understanding number words (e.g., "eight") is understanding that all number words refer to the dimension of experience we call numerosity. Knowledge of this general principle may be separable from knowledge of individual number word meanings. That is, children may learn the meanings of at least a few individual number words…
Descriptors: Evidence, Semantics, Number Concepts, Numeracy
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Cordes, Sara; Brannon, Elizabeth M. – Developmental Science, 2008
We review recently published papers that have contributed to our understanding of how the preverbal infant represents number, area and time. We review evidence that infants rely on two distinct systems to represent number nonverbally and highlight the similarities in the ratio-dependent discrimination of number, time and area. Contrary to earlier…
Descriptors: Infants, Competence, Concept Formation, Time
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