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Direct linkPan, 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
Language-Specific Effects on Number Computation in Toddlers: A European Cross-Linguistic Cartography
Lubin, Amelie; Pineau, Arlette; Hodent, Celia; Houde, Olivier – Cognitive Development, 2006
A fundamental question in developmental science is how brains with and without language compute numbers. Measuring young children's verbal reactions in Spain and Finland, we show that, although there is a general arithmetic ability for small numbers that is shared by monkeys and preverbal infants, the development of such initial knowledge in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cartography, Numbers, Computation
