| Description |
xxi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Developmental psychology series |
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Developmental psychology series.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Plan of the book -- -- 2. The digging stick, the steel ax, and the calculator -- Prehistory -- Recent history -- Indigenous mathematics project sites -- Culture and Educational development -- -- 3. Cognitive testing in Papua New Guinea -- Piagetian research -- Bruneria studies -- Implications for a theory of culture and cognition -- Implications for a program of research -- -- 4. Intercultural variation incognitive development -- Procedure -- The tests -- Results -- Overview -- -- 5. Cultural complexity -- Counting systems - Classification systems -- Children's play -- Technological complexity -- Urban Residence -- Malnutrition -- -- 6. The development of counting and classification skills -- Studies of numerical reasoning - Studies of length conservation -- Further studies in classification and cognition -- -- 7. The limits of mathematical achievement -- Some historical issues -- Mathematics achievement -first survey -- Mathematics achievement - second survey -- Research in the mathematics education centre -- The teaching of mathematics -- Conclusion -- -- 8. The co-evolution of culture, cognition, and schooling |
| Analysis |
01030 Papua New Guinea 11030 primary schools p0030 curriculum subjects q1030 arithmetic 21030 learning by 20320 learning of arithmetics 31030 students 20030 role of congnitive development 1003 |
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Arithmetic Study and teaching (Elementa |
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Cognition in children Papua New Guinea |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 213-234 |
| Subject |
Cognition in children -- Papua New Guinea.
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Cross-cultural studies -- Papua New Guinea.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Papua New Guinea.
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| LC no. |
82008794 |
| ISBN |
0124356206 |
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