Counting-on, trading and partitioning: Effects of training and prior knowledge on performance on base-10 tasks


Saxton M., Cakir K.

CHILD DEVELOPMENT, vol.77, no.3, pp.767-785, 2006 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 77 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2006
  • Doi Number: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00902.x
  • Journal Name: CHILD DEVELOPMENT
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.767-785
  • Çukurova University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Factors affecting performance on base-10 tasks were investigated in a series of four studies with a total of 453 children aged 5-7 years. Training in counting-on was found to enhance child performance on base-10 tasks (Studies 2, 3, and 4), while prior knowledge of counting-on (Study 1), trading (Studies 1 and 3), and partitioning (Studies 1 and 4) were associated with enhanced base-10 performance. It emerged that procedural knowledge of counting-on, trading, and partitioning can lead to improvements in procedural knowledge of the base-10 system. The findings lend support to the model of iterative development of conceptual and procedural knowledge advanced by Rittle-Johnson et al. (2001).