Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface, 1986 v
3. Preface to the First Edition ix
4. Contents xiii
5. Chapter One. Focus on the Preschooler 1
6. Chapter Two. Training Studies Reconsidered 13
7. Chapter Three. More Capacity Than Meets the Eye: Direct Evidence 25
8. Chapter Four. Number Concepts in the Preschooler? 45
9. Chapter Five. What Numerosities Can the Young Child Represent? 50
10. Chapter Six. How Do Young Children Obtain Their Representations of Numerosity? 64
11. Chapter Seven. The Counting Model 73
12. Chapter Eight. The Development of the How-To-Count Principles 83
13. Chapter Nine. The Abstraction and Order- Irrelevance Counting Principles 136
14. Chapter Ten. Reasoning about Number 160
15. Chapter Eleven. Formal Arithmetic and the Young Child's Understanding of Number 179
16. Chapter Twelve. What Develops and How 202
17. Conclusions 243
18. References 246
19. Index 255