Date of Original Version
2011
Type
Thesis
Abstract or Table of Contents
An accurate sense of numerical magnitude is crucial for children to develop an understanding of mathematics. As children being learning aobut numbers, they develop a logarithmic sense of number magnatudes- one where the numbers they can't understand or count are just considered "big" and are fairly indistinguishable- but as they learn more about numbers, they shift to a linear, 1:1 representation of numbers.
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Comments
Department of Psychology
Robert S. Siegler, advisor