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The Influence Of Age, Sex, And Colors On The Number Recognition And Counting Abilities Of Preschool Children, Connie L. Jackson
The Influence Of Age, Sex, And Colors On The Number Recognition And Counting Abilities Of Preschool Children, Connie L. Jackson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The effects of the child's chronological age, his sex, and a second concept of color were studied as they effected the counting skills and number recognition abilities in preschool children. The research was conducted at the Utah State University Child Development Laboratories with the subjects being three and four-year-old children enrolled at that time. Each child was given counting and number recognition tasks involving cubes in sets of one color and also in sets which involved two colors.
It was found that as the age of the child increased, his ability to correctly count and label sets of cubes also …