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One for you, two for me: quantitative sharing by young children

Abstract:

The current research aimed to examine children’s understanding of cardinality by looking at their ability to use several quantitative concepts that underpin this understanding: correspondence, counting and equivalence in the context of sharing. Understanding cardinality requires children to develop knowledge about the relations between these quantitative concepts which is important for the development of mathematical reasoning.

The first study aimed to investigate how flexibly child...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Education
Research group:
Child Learning
Oxford college:
Lincoln College
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Author

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Publication date:
2014
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
Oxford University, UK

Language:
English
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Local pid:
ora:9747
Deposit date:
2015-01-15

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