Abstract
TouchCounts is a novel iPad application, one which makes full use of its multi-touch affordance to engage young children in aspects of the cultures of counting and adding/subtracting, by means of engagement with the combined sensory modalities of the visible, the audible and the tangible. Drawing on various excerpts with children aged three to six working with this App in educational settings (both day-care and kindergarten), we investigate how this trio of senses is utilised in children's activity with TouchCounts. Our work focuses in considerable part on issues of ordinality, as well as highlighting the particular significance of tangibility in the context of young children coming to terms with counting and early arithmetic.
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