Essai d'étude comparative selon le milieu socio-culturel d'origine de l'acquisition de la notion d'équivalence numérique.

Abstract

Aware that a child's progress at school {whether he advances from one class to the next) is strongly related to his socio-cultural origins, we set out to investigate whether the same relation ship exists between the socio-cultural background of kindergarten children and their cognive development, as described in the works of Piaget. The analysis of Piaget's concept of the conservation of numerical equivalence did not indicate any socio-cultural differences in regard to the level of cognitive development in 5 ond 6 years old children. A detailed study of the data, however, did indicate that the two groups of children employed different arguments in the responses they gave, which tended in turn to influence the manner in which the investigator questioned the children. Thus differences were found to exist in adult-child interactions.