Children's understanding of the abstract logic of counting
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104790
Abstract: When children learn to count, do they understand its logic independent of the number list that they learned to count with? Here we tested CP-knowers' (ages three to five) understanding of how counting reveals a… read more here.
Keywords: logic counting; abstract logic; understanding abstract; children understanding ... See more keywords
Children's understanding of yesterday and tomorrow.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.01.010
Abstract: A picture-sentence matching task was used to investigate children's understanding of yesterday and tomorrow. In Experiment 1, 3- to 5-year-olds viewed two pictures of an object with a visible change of state (e.g., a carved… read more here.
Keywords: tomorrow; understanding yesterday; yesterday; yesterday tomorrow ... See more keywords
Children's understanding of pronouns that differ in scope of reference
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000919000254
Abstract: Abstract Some pronouns can refer to entities that vary widely in scope. In some cases, the referent might be a noun phrase, and in other cases it might be a whole proposition. In the cases… read more here.
Keywords: noun phrase; pronouns differ; scope reference; differ scope ... See more keywords
Relational Scaffolding Enhances Children’s Understanding of Scientific Models
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DOI: 10.1177/0956797619864601
Abstract: Models are central to the practice and teaching of science. Yet people often fail to grasp how scientific models explain their observations of the world. Realizing the explanatory power of a model may require aligning… read more here.
Keywords: understanding scientific; enhances children; scaffolding; children understanding ... See more keywords