幼児期における数直線の見積りの縦断的検討

A Longitudinal Study of Number Line Estimation in Young Children

Uragami Moe

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第三部, 教育人間科学関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 3, Education and human science

The development of numerical representations plays a central role in a child’s mathematical abilities. Previous studies have reported that children’s numerical representations shift from logarithmic to linear ones and the slope of linear representation shifts from 0 to 1. In order to investigate the developmental process in detail, we carried out a longitudinal study. Thirty young preschoolers (mean age = 4 years, 1 month) and 47 middle preschoolers (mean age = 5 years, 1 month) received a number-to-position task (0-10) twice over nine months. According to our results, both groups were most suitable linear representations, but the slope of middle preschoolers’ performance was nearer 1 than the young preschoolers’ performance. However, the slopes of both groups were not much different when we divided the children in fitted or non-fitted function. For this reason, previous studies could not properly evaluate the development of slope. It is possible that the non-fitted representations are transformed into linear representations with slope away from 1 partly through logarithmic representations.

見積り

数直線課題

幼児

縦断研究

estimation

number-to-position task

young children

longitudinal study

Education [ 370 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

[ISSN] 1346-5562

[NCID] AA11625039