A study of 60-to 89-mo.-old children's skill at writing numerals


Arnas Y., Sigirtmac A., Gul E.

PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS, cilt.98, sa.2, ss.656-660, 2004 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 98 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2004
  • Doi Numarası: 10.2466/pms.98.2.656-660
  • Dergi Adı: PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.656-660
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The skill of writing numerals necessitates a certain developmental maturity. Studying the age at which children start to develop this skill and assessing problems they encounter while writing numerals should give direction to their training. From 8 schools a total of 267 children, ages 60 to 89 me., were asked to write the numerals 1 to 9. Analysis showed that 80% of the children wrote most of the numerals correctly, 15% wrote inverted numerals, 2.0% wrote some numerals as letters, and 4% did not write certain numerals at all. In addition, 64% of children ages 60 to 65 mo. gave correct responses, and the perception of correct responses increased across age groups until 95% were correct in the group who were 84 to 89 me. There was no significant difference between girls and boys in these writing skills.