16 His view, however, was that this kind of knowledge emerges only with the acquisition of concrete-operational thinking, around 5-7 years of age. Piaget’s classic research on logico-mathematical development investigated children’s understanding of general properties of quantity such as seriation and the conservation of equivalence relations under certain kinds of transformations. Correspondingly, understanding the development of numeracy in early childhood entails understanding both how children come to understand the basic quantitative relations that numbers share with other kinds of quantities and how they come to understand the aspects of number that distinguish it from other kinds of quantities. 15įundamentally, numeracy entails understanding numbers as representations of a particular kind of magnitude. 14 An analysis of predictors of academic achievement, based on six longitudinal data sets, found that children’s math skills at school entry predicted subsequent school performance more strongly than did early reading skills, attentional skills or socioemotional skills. 11,12,13 Further, the mathematics knowledge that children acquire before they begin formal schooling has important ramifications for school performance and future career options. Research on young children’s numerical knowledge provides an important foundation for the formulation of standards for early childhood education 10 and for the design of early childhood mathematics curricula. This research encompasses a wide range of abilities and concepts, from infants’ ability to discriminate between collections containing different numbers of elements 1,2 to preschoolers’ understanding of number words 3,4 and counting, 5,6,7 and their grasp of the inverse relation between addition and subtraction. Research on the numerical knowledge of young children has grown rapidly in recent years.
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