Origins of Mathematical Knowledge in Childhood Sophian Catherine
Origins of Mathematical Knowledge in Childhood Sophian Catherine This book examines the origins and development of children's mathematical knowledge. According to the comparison-of-quantities…
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Origins of Mathematical Knowledge in Childhood Sophian Catherine
This book examines the origins and development of children's mathematical knowledge. According to the comparison-of-quantities position, the concept of number builds upon more basic concepts of equality, inequality, and less-than and greater-than relations, which derive from comparisons between unenumerated quantities such as lengths. It contrasts the widely held view that counting is the starting point for mathematical development with an alternative comparison-of-quantities position.
Sophian examines these alternative accounts of children's developing mathematical knowledge in the light of research: on children's counting; on their reasoning about continuous quantities such as length and area; on the development The concept of number combines these basic comparative concepts with the concept of a unit of measure, which allows one quantity to be described as a multiple of another.