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McEvoy, John – British Journal of Special Education, 1989
Studies of young children's sequence of development from counting to the beginnings of formal arithmetic are reviewed. Four essential basic skills are identified: use of counting words, enumeration, the cardinality rule, and quantitative comparison. The contribution of counting to the development of arithmetical proficiency is stressed. (JDD)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Computation, Developmental Stages
Stacey, Kaye – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
A longitudinal study of students' developing understanding of decimal notation has been conducted by testing over 3000 students in Grades 4 to 10 up to 7 times. A pencil-and-paper test based on a carefully designed set of decimal comparison items enabled students' responses to be classified into 11 codes and tracked over time. The paper reports on…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Arithmetic, Coding, Longitudinal Studies