How counting represents number: What children must learn and when they learn it
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How counting represents number: what children must learn and when they learn it.
This study compared 2- to 4-year-olds who understand how counting works (cardinal-principle-knowers) to those who do not (subset-knowers), in order to better characterize the knowledge itself. New results are that (1) Many children answer the question "how many" with the last word used in counting, despite not understanding how counting works; (2) Only children who have mastered the cardinal pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.05.007