I would like to thank my contributors for making my editorial duties in preparing this volume
so enjoyable. The outstanding quality of their contributions and of their writing made the …

Peter Sutherland taught for ten years in a variety of schools, both primary and secondary,
and has since been a lecturer in education, specializing in psychological topics. He worked …

An Introduction to Developmental Psychology, 3rd Edition is a representative and
authoritative'state of the art'account of human development from conception to adolescence …

The authors of this volume, which is newly available in paperback, all hold the view that
mathematics is a form of intelligent problem solving which plays an important part in …

Mathematics poses an interesting, and a rewarding, set of questions to developmental
psychologists. The crux of the psychological problem is the variety of forms that …

Psychological research on the development of children's mathematical reasoning has
focused either on their understanding of quantities or on their knowledge of number. A …

Chapitre I QUANTITÉ ET CONDITION DE SAISIE DU MONDE Introduction.. 1. Espace,
temps et quantité. 1.1. Pourquoi une telle trilogie? 1.2. L'espace et le temps: des dimensions …

If you are told that job A pays more than job B and job B pays more than job C, then you can
conclude that job A pays more than job C. This conclusion follows deductively because pays …

Numerate adults know that when two sets are equal, they should be labeled by the same
number word. We explored the development of this principle—sometimes called “cardinal …

Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics
offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of …