Children's Understanding of Multiplicative Relationships in the Construction of Quantitative Equivalence.

Frydman, Oliver; Bryant, Peter

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ERIC Number: EJ496719

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Publication Date: 1994

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Children's Understanding of Multiplicative Relationships in the Construction of Quantitative Equivalence.

Frydman, Oliver; Bryant, Peter

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v58 n3 p489-509 Dec 1994

Examined Piaget's claim that young children have difficulties constructing common multiples because of an inability to abstract the number of actions performed to obtain a number of objects. Subjects were two groups of preschool children in sharing tasks. Results showed improvement in performance based on certain conditions, but the significance of the improvement was ambiguous. (SW)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Computation, Developmental Tasks, Foreign Countries, Piagetian Theory, Preschool Education, Young Children

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Belgium

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