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ERIC Number: EJ626940
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
Children's Understanding of Number Is Similar to Adults' and Rats': Numerical Estimation by 5- [to] 7-Year-Olds.
Huntley-Fenner, Gavin
Cognition, v78 n3 pB27-B40 Mar 2001
Examined analog number representations in 5- to 7- year-olds. Found that subjects accurately estimated rapidly presented groups of 5 to 11 items. Children's data were qualitatively and to some degree quantitatively similar to adult data, with one exception. The ratio of the standard deviation of estimates to mean estimates decreased with age. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Estimation (Mathematics), Number Concepts, Numeracy
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Representational Competence; Representational Thinking