Research was conducted at the University of Missouri
to determine how infants chose items when presented with small and large sets
of objects. Kristy vanMarle, assistant professor University of Missouri,
says, “Understanding how infants develop the ability to represent and compare
numbers could be used to improve early education programs.”
The study suggest that the infants, ages 10 to 12 months, have
not yet integrated the ability to estimate numbers of objects at a glance and
the ability to visually track small sets of objects.
Although many early childhood programs promote mathematics
and arithmetic at an early age, this study proposes those programs are
ineffective because young children are not able to compare some numbers with
others.
Reference:
Kristy vanMarle. Infants use different mechanisms to
make small and large number ordinal judgments. Journal of
Experimental Child Psychology, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.04.007
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