Research on learning has shown the importance of the learner‟s possibilities to discern what differs as well as what is similar when meeting new phenomena. But how does this kind of understanding develop when young children try to understand their environment in natural settings? The results of Tolchinsky‟s research (2003) about young children‟s understanding of numbers and letters before being taught are considered in this study. Tolchinsky‟s results showed that children can separate cards that can be read from those which can not be read. Even more, the results showed that children did not separate cards with numbers in the same way. In this study the point of departure is variation theory, and Tolchinsky‟s results are seen through the pe...
Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, School of Education, 1998.Bibliography: p. 249-285.Background to...
A key question in early number development is how 4- and 5-year-olds learn the roles that counting a...
International audienceThe aim of this pilot study is to explore when and how toddlers discern aspect...
Research on learning has shown the importance of the learner‟s possibilities to discern what differs...
The aim of this study is to describe in what way preschool activities contribute to t...
This paper examines how and when children come to understand the way in which counting determines nu...
This qualitative study explored the responses and strategies used by children ages two to five when ...
M.Ed. (Education)Abstract: When children start their engagement with symbolic learning, they lay the...
Three studies examined the abstractness of children's mental representation of counting, and th...
peer reviewedThis study tests the hypothesis that there is a single pathway for the order in which c...
Little is known about children’s sharing skills and the relation of these skills to the understandin...
Although number words are common in everyday speech, learning their meanings is an arduous, drawn-ou...
In this article, we direct attention to what becomes critical in teaching activities for toddlers (1...
This study assessed whether a sample of two hundred seven 3- to 7-year-olds could interpret multidig...
The master's thesis deals with the understanding of the concept of numbers of children aged three to...
Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, School of Education, 1998.Bibliography: p. 249-285.Background to...
A key question in early number development is how 4- and 5-year-olds learn the roles that counting a...
International audienceThe aim of this pilot study is to explore when and how toddlers discern aspect...
Research on learning has shown the importance of the learner‟s possibilities to discern what differs...
The aim of this study is to describe in what way preschool activities contribute to t...
This paper examines how and when children come to understand the way in which counting determines nu...
This qualitative study explored the responses and strategies used by children ages two to five when ...
M.Ed. (Education)Abstract: When children start their engagement with symbolic learning, they lay the...
Three studies examined the abstractness of children's mental representation of counting, and th...
peer reviewedThis study tests the hypothesis that there is a single pathway for the order in which c...
Little is known about children’s sharing skills and the relation of these skills to the understandin...
Although number words are common in everyday speech, learning their meanings is an arduous, drawn-ou...
In this article, we direct attention to what becomes critical in teaching activities for toddlers (1...
This study assessed whether a sample of two hundred seven 3- to 7-year-olds could interpret multidig...
The master's thesis deals with the understanding of the concept of numbers of children aged three to...
Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, School of Education, 1998.Bibliography: p. 249-285.Background to...
A key question in early number development is how 4- and 5-year-olds learn the roles that counting a...
International audienceThe aim of this pilot study is to explore when and how toddlers discern aspect...