Poster at BCCCD 2020
10th annual BCCCD meeting Budapest, Hungary January 9-11, 2020. Poster Session B Date: 10th January Time: 14:30 - 16:30 Location: First floor Poster: PB.e-037 A-0111 Learning the number sequence: preschool children make sense of numbers Francesco Sella 1 , Daniela Lucangeli 2 , Roi Cohen Kadosh 3 , Marco Zorzi 2 1 University of Sheffield, UK; 2 University of Padova, Italy; 3 University of Oxford, UK. Abstract: Learning how symbolic numbers represent exact quantities is a cornerstone in the development of early numeracy skills. We explored how the mastering of different numerical concepts relate to symbolic magnitude knowledge, as assessed in number comparison tasks. We used a give-a-number task to classify preschool children in subset-knowers and cardinal-principle (CP) knowers. We implemented a direction task to assess children’s understanding of the directional property of the counting list: that is, adding one item to a set leads to the nex...