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Preschool children seriated pinecones by size largely by trial and error, and seriating in reverse order was more challenging and needed extensive verbal cueing

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2002 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Almost all children seriated at least 9 of 17 pinecones from biggest to smallest; reverse-order seriation required much teacher verbal cueing. → Kirova 2002

Evidence

Kirova 2002

Kirova, Anna; Bhargava, Ambika. (2002). Learning To Guide Preschool Children's Mathematical Understanding: A Teacher's Professional Growth. Early Childhood Research & Practice. http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v4n1/kirova.html

q2 · i? · the article prints no effect size for this finding · qualitative · r1

Classroom activity with the teacher's collection of 17 pinecones of varied sizes. "Almost all of them were able to sedate at least 9 of the cones from biggest to smallest" (article's spelling), one child all 17; "Seriating in reverse order was more challenging and needed a lot of verbal cueing."

"Although most children used trial and error to put them in order, almost all of them were able to sedate at least 9 of the cones from biggest to smallest. One child was even able to sedate all 17 of them. Seriating in reverse order was more challenging and needed a lot of verbal cueing on the part of the teacher."

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type claim
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title Preschool children seriated pinecones by size largely by trial and error, and seriating in reverse order was more challenging and needed extensive verbal cueing
description Preschool children seriated pinecones by size largely by trial and error, and seriating in reverse order was more challenging and needed extensive verbal cueing
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2002
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