TY - JOUR
T1 - Don't throw the baby out with the math water
T2 - Why discounting the developmental foundations of early numeracy is premature and unnecessary
AU - Muldoon, Kevin
AU - Lewis, Charlie
AU - Freeman, Norman
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - We see no grounds for insisting that, because the concept natural number is abstract, its foundations must be innate. It is possible to specify domain general learning processes that feed into more abstract concepts of numerical infinity. By neglecting the messiness of children's slow acquisition of arithmetical concepts, Rips et al. present an idealized, unnecessarily insular, view of number development. © 2008 Cambridge University Press.
AB - We see no grounds for insisting that, because the concept natural number is abstract, its foundations must be innate. It is possible to specify domain general learning processes that feed into more abstract concepts of numerical infinity. By neglecting the messiness of children's slow acquisition of arithmetical concepts, Rips et al. present an idealized, unnecessarily insular, view of number development. © 2008 Cambridge University Press.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=57649119796&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X08005803
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X08005803
M3 - Comment/debate
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 31
SP - 663
EP - 664
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
IS - 6
ER -