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ERIC Number: EJ788294
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Mar
Pages: 9
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
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Number Games, Magnitude Representation, and Basic Number Skills in Preschoolers
Whyte, Jemma Catherine; Bull, Rebecca
Developmental Psychology, v44 n2 p588-596 Mar 2008
The effect of 3 intervention board games (linear number, linear color, and nonlinear number) on young children's (mean age = 3.8 years) counting abilities, number naming, magnitude comprehension, accuracy in number-to-position estimation tasks, and best-fit numerical magnitude representations was examined. Pre- and posttest performance was compared following four 25-min intervention sessions. The linear number board game significantly improved children's performance in all posttest measures and facilitated a shift from a logarithmic to a linear representation of numerical magnitude, emphasizing the importance of spatial cues in estimation. Exposure to the number card games involving nonsymbolic magnitude judgments and association of symbolic and nonsymbolic quantities, but without any linear spatial cues, improved some aspects of children's basic number skills but not numerical estimation precision.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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