Mathematics using multiple senses: Developing finger gnosis with three- and four-year-olds in an era of multi-touch technologies

• 영문명: Mathematics using multiple senses: Developing finger gnosis with three- and four-year-olds in an era of multi-touch technologies
• 발행기관: The Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association(환태평양유아교육연구학회)
• 저자명: Nathalie Sinclair David Pimm
• 간행물 정보: 『Asia-Pacific journal of research in early childhood education』 Vol.9 No.3, 99~110쪽, 전체 12쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.09.01

영문 초록

In this paper, we explore a richer sense of finger gnosis (finger knowledge) with respect to three- and four-year-olds’ interactions with a novel iPad application (TouchCounts), focusing on their responses to an “inverse subitising” task. The direct and tactile nature of their engagement with TouchCounts leads to a striking shift from incrementing using the index finger to deployment of several fingers all-at-once (in a cardinal touch gesture) to achieve a given target number that is then spoken by the iPad. This form of finger representation differs from the more ordinally-based differentiation of fingers that is discussed in the psychology literature.

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Counting Kindergarten touchscreen technology mathematics