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Lancy, David; And Others – 1981
Reported are the results of an experiment in which twelve different conservation of length tasks, indicative of passage from Piaget's pre-operational to concrete operations stages of cognitive development, were administered to a sample of individuals from Imbonggu-speaking people, a remote and traditional society in Papua New Guinea. Individuals…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Clements, M. A.; Lean, Glen A. – 1981
Cognitive and non-cognitive influences on the mathematical learning of children attending four community schools in different provinces of Papua New Guinea and an international primary school in Lae were investigated. Altogether, 446 pupils, most in grades 2, 4, or 6, were given pencil-and-paper group tests; 253 pupils were also given individual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Educational Research
Saxe, Geoffrey B. – 1981
This brief report from the Indigenous Mathematics Project focuses on the way in which numerical reasoning is changing in the Oksapmin community of Papua New Guinea as a function of participation in new social institutions: economic exchange with currency and enrollment in school. Each of these new institutions means that arithmetic problems are…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cross Cultural Studies
