Clinical Studies of Counting Problems With Primary School Children
Stake, Bernadine Evans
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Description
Title
Clinical Studies of Counting Problems With Primary School Children
Author(s)
Stake, Bernadine Evans
Issue Date
1980
Department of Study
Education
Discipline
Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Educat.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Education, Mathematics
Language
eng
Abstract
"Interviews with five primary school children were selected from over 200 videotaped interviews and were analyzed to discover children's conceptions of counting. Using various complex counting tasks, the clinical interviews focused on place value, addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Five counting principles proposed by Gelman and Gallistel (1978) and three additional principles proposed by the author gave focus to children's counting tactics. Easley (1974) provided a diagramatic form for constructing explanations of the children's counting behavior. Children's counting and other schemas were inferred and interpreted in terms of children's understandings of counting. It was found that most children's counting is a process and often has little relationship to numerosity. Children's process schemas were separate from quantity schemas. Each of them operated at different times to solve counting problems. Children counted but didn't find the answer to ""How many?"""
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