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Blote, Anke W.; Lieffering, Laura M.; Ouwehand, Klasina – Cognitive Development, 2006
This study investigated the development of children's knowledge of many-to-one counting. Four-year-olds ("n" = 51) either participated in a training or in a control group. The training taught children how to allot "Y" physically not present items to each of "X" objects and how to count these items in the process. It…
Descriptors: Computation, Young Children, Mathematical Concepts, Multiplication
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Pan, Yingqiu; Gauvain, Mary; Liu, Zhengkui; Cheng, Li – Cognitive Development, 2006
This study compared the involvement of American and Chinese mothers in their 5- and 7-year-old children's number learning in their everyday experience and during mother-child interaction on mathematics tasks pertaining to proportional reasoning. Results indicated that Chinese mothers of both the 5- and 7-year-old children were more likely to teach…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Young Children, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship