Snippets:
- As parent and teachers we see child not sharing things among siblings and friends as embarassing.
- This research has linked sharing with number counting.
- It’s not that children don’t want to share. It’s that they don’t yet understand how to share fairly.
- The reserachers point out from their recent work, that one of the reasons young children fail to share when they know they should is that they simply lack the cognitive toolbox to do so.
- The children who recognise numbers well, tend to easily understand the concept of sharing and also do share too.
- This research explains how closely the numerical skills and social skill of sharing is linked.
- Why would sharing be related to counting? It is because children can’t share the proper number if they don’t also know how to count it.
- Research also points out that, many children were actually trying to be fair—but couldn’t do it on account of their underdeveloped counting skills.
- Example of how counting helps:
children who shared equally seemed much more aware of how many items they’d given each person, suggesting that maybe counting was helping them keep track in a much more precise way.
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Snippets prepared by:
Maaz Mohammed A.Q
Learning Strategist
CLF