The Cradle of Culture and What Children Know About Writing and Numbers Before Being

by Liliana Tolchinsky

Book Overview

This book provides a thrilling description of preliterate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates well the many ways in which cultural artifacts influence the mind and vice versa. Remarkably, children treat writing and numerals as distinct even before they have received any formal training on the topic, and well before they learn how to use writing to represent messages and numerals to represent quantities.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805844848
• ISBN13: 9780805844849
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"