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Children's counting: The early formation of numerical symbols
Author(s) -
Saxe Geoffrey B.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.23219790308
Subject(s) - symbol (formal) , arithmetic , psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , mathematics , programming language
Children's counting is more complex than first meets the eye; this chapter takes a close look at the young child's use of counting and how the child turns counting names into a symbol system for number in the course of development.