Abstract

Butterworth [3] claims that counting makes the first bridge from the child’s innate capacity for numerosity to the more...

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  • Butterworth [3] claims that counting makes the first bridge from the child’s innate capacity for numerosity to the more advanced mathematical achievements of the culture into which she was born

  • The least mathematical of cultures enable their members to do much more than the infant. They can keep track of quite large numerosities counting with special number words or bodypart names; they can do arithmetic beyond adding or subtracting one from small numerosities which they will need for trading or for ritual exchanges

  • According to Wynn [8], in order to understand the counting system-that is, to know how counting encodes numerositychildren must know the meanings of the number words. They must know, at least implicitly, that each word’s position in the number word list relates directly to its meaning-the farther along a word occurs in the list, the greater the numerosity it refers to

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When Do Children Learn the Concept of Numbers?

Meisam Ziafar and Ehsan Namaziandost2* 1Department of English Language Teaching, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran 2Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran *Corresponding author: Ehsan Namaziandost, Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity, Shahrekord, Iran

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