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Greenfield, Patricia Marks – 1979
Three experiments concerned with methods of teaching mathematical concepts to 2- and 3-year-olds were carried out. The first experiment, in which 12 children were taught the concepts "fat" and "skinny," showed that (1) explicit verbal representation of the concepts was a more effective instructional technique than formulation in terms of an…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Conference Reports, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research