Numerical thinking: evolution of the cardinal number in Early Childhood Education

In this paper we focus on the cardinal aspect of the natural number, where the number is associated with a set to indicate the amount of elements it has. It is about studying how cardinal thinking is in children in pre-school education. Presenting tasks with the logical-mathematical schemes of the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Fernández Escalona, Catalina, Dominguez Fernández, Antonio
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2018
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (UNIMONTES)
Repository:Educação Matemática Debate
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.periodicos.unimontes.br:article/68
Online Access:https://www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/emd/article/view/68
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Numerical Thinking
Natural Number
Cardinal Number
Early Childhood Education
Pensamiento Numérico
Número Natural
Número Cardinal
Educación Infantil
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Summary:In this paper we focus on the cardinal aspect of the natural number, where the number is associated with a set to indicate the amount of elements it has. It is about studying how cardinal thinking is in children in pre-school education. Presenting tasks with the logical-mathematical schemes of the cardinal number, and taking into account that each task corresponds to the child's maturational age, we analyze the strategies followed, as well as the mistakes made by those students who have not overcome this task, achieving all this diagnose the numerical thinking in its cardinal aspect.