Development of numerical cognition among Brazilian school-aged children
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2012
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Santos, Flávia Heloísa dos [UNESP]
Silva, Paulo Adilson da [UNESP]
Ribeiro, Fabiana Silva [UNESP]
Dellatolas, Georges
Aster, Michael Von
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The Numerical Cognition is influenced by biological, cognitive, educational, and cultural factors and entails the following systems: Number Sense (NS) represents the innate ability to recognize, compare, add, and subtract small quantities, without the need of counting; Number Production (NP) which includes reading, writing and counting numbers or objects; Number Comprehension (NC), i.e., the understanding the nature of the numerical symbols and their number, and the calculation (CA). The aims of the present study were to: i) assess theoretical constructs (NS, NC, NP and CA) in children from public schools from 1 st -to 6 th - grades; and ii) investigate their relationship with schooling and working memory. The sample included 162 children, both genders, of 7-to 12-years-old that studied in public school from 1 st -to 6 th -grades, which participated in the normative study of Zareki-R (Battery of neuropsychological tests for number processing and calculation in children, Revised; von Aster & Dellatolas, 2006). Children of 1 st and 2 nd grades demonstrated an inferior global score in NC, NP and CA. There were no genderrelated differences. The results indicated that the contribution of NS domain in Zareki-R performance is low in comparison to the other three domains, which are dependent on school-related arithmetic skills.
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Zareki-R, Mathematical skills, Neuropsychology, Arithmetic, Working memory
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Jornal Internacional de Estudos em Educação Matemática, v. 5, n. 2, p. 44-64, 2012.