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TY - JOUR
T1 - Don't throw the baby out with the math water: Why discounting the developmental foundations of early numeracy is premature and unnecessary
AU - Muldoon, Kevin
AU - Lewis, Charlie
AU - Freeman, Norman
N1 - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BBS The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31 (6), pp 663-664 2008, © 2008 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - We see no grounds for insisting that, because the concept natural number is abstract, its foundations must be innate. It is possible to specify domain general learning processes that feed into more abstract concepts of numerical infinity. By neglecting the messiness of children's slow acquisition of arithmetical concepts. Rips et al. present an idealized, unnecessarily insular, view of number development.
AB - We see no grounds for insisting that, because the concept natural number is abstract, its foundations must be innate. It is possible to specify domain general learning processes that feed into more abstract concepts of numerical infinity. By neglecting the messiness of children's slow acquisition of arithmetical concepts. Rips et al. present an idealized, unnecessarily insular, view of number development.
U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X08005803
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X08005803
M3 - Editorial
VL - 31
SP - 663
EP - 664
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
SN - 0140-525X
IS - 6
ER -