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ERIC Number: EJ330300
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Development of Absolute and Relative Concepts of Number in Preschool Children.
Michie, Susan
Developmental Psychology, v21 n2 p247-52 Mar 1985
Three-, four-, and five-year-olds were given problems to test their ability to recognize absolute number and relative order. Results suggest that children understand number as an absolute amount before they understand it as part of a progressive sequence in contradiction to the "ordinal theory of number." (Author/DST)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Developmental Tasks, Early Childhood Education, Number Concepts, Numbers, Preschool Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cardinal Numbers; Number Sequences; Ordinal Numbers; Scalogram Analysis