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Peer reviewedSaxe, Geoffrey B. – Child Development, 1981
Two studies indicate that Oksapmin children progress from premediational to mediational phases in their use of body parts to compare and reproduce number and that this change generally occurs prior to the development of concepts of number conservation. A third study shows that this general change is manifested in culturally specific ways.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Computation
