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Sauter, Megan; Uttal, David H.; Alman, Amanda Schaal; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Levine, Susan C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
This article examines two issues: the role of gesture in the communication of spatial information and the relation between communication and mental representation. Children (8-10 years) and adults walked through a space to learn the locations of six hidden toy animals and then explained the space to another person. In Study 1, older children and…
Descriptors: Animals, Nonverbal Communication, Spatial Ability, Children
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Boyer, Ty W.; Levine, Susan C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The current experiments examined the role of scale factor in children's proportional reasoning. Experiment 1 used a choice task and Experiment 2 used a production task to examine the abilities of kindergartners through fourth-graders to match equivalent, visually depicted proportional relations. The findings of both experiments show that accuracy…
Descriptors: Scaling, Measures (Individuals), Mathematical Concepts, Task Analysis