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A Million Is More Than A Thousand: Children's Acquisition Of Very Large Number Words, Pierina Cheung, Daniel Ansari
A Million Is More Than A Thousand: Children's Acquisition Of Very Large Number Words, Pierina Cheung, Daniel Ansari
Paediatrics Publications
Very large numbers words such as “hundred,” “thousand,” “million,” “billion,” and “trillion” pose a learning problem for children because they are sparse in everyday speech and children's experience with extremely large quantities is scarce. In this study, we examine when children acquire the relative ordering of very large number words as a first step toward understanding their acquisition. In Study 1, a hundred and twenty-five 5–8-year-olds participated in a verbal number comparison task involving very large number words. We found that children can judge which of two very large numbers is more as early as age 6, prior to entering …