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The Role of Quantification Operators in the Development of Conservation of Quantity.
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Klahr, David; Wallace, J. G. – Cognitive Psychology, 1973
An analysis of the quantitative processes underlying conservation of quantity is presented. Models of three quantitative operators--subitizing, counting, and estimation--are derived from adult performance in quantification tasks, and some features of the operators are described. The emergence of conservation is described in terms of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Computation, Concept Formation