Child's Understanding of Number

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1. Focus on the Preschooler; 2. Training Studies Reconsidered; 3. More Capacity Than Meets the Eye: Direct Evidence; 4. Number Concepts in the Preschooler?; 5. What Numerosities Can the Young Child Represent?; 6. How Do Young Children Obtain Their Representations of Numerosity?; 7. The Counting Model; 8. The Development of the How-To-Count Principles; 9. The Abstraction and Order-Irrelevance Counting Principles; 10. Reasoning about Number; 11. Formal Arithmetic and the Young Child's Understanding of Number; 12. What Develops and How; Conclusions; References; Index