Psychological Development and Education ›› 2008, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (4): 8-12.

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The Study on the Development of Number Sense in Young Children Aged 3-6

ZHAO Zhen-guo   

  1. Department of Preschool Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
  • Online:2008-10-15 Published:2008-10-15

Abstract: 180 children aged 3 to 6 years were individually tested to examine the developmental characteristics of their number sense,who were from two ordinary preschools in Shanghai.The results indicated that:(1)The significant age differences were found on the number sense,but without gender discrimination being found;(2)The performances of Counting forward,Numerosity Comparison between two piles of objects,Number Identification were the best,while the performances of Counting backward and Ordinality were the worst;(3)The components of number sense were not synchronous at the age between 3 and 6,that is,the development of cognition on Counting backward,Ordinality,and Number Identification was very fast between the ages of 5 and 6,but that on Counting forward,Cardinal number,and the meaning of Addition-Subtraction was very faster during the ages of 4 to 5.

Key words: young children, number sense, Counting backward, cardinal number, Ordinality

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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