Mathematical development of children

by David C. Geary

Mathematical development of childrenMost children find it difficult to understand the basic concepts of mathematics. In the age of using Hangul only, it is not always easy to learn the basic concepts of symbolism, so it is necessary to examine how children form and develop mathematical concepts in growing homes. It is an advantage of this book that the rationale of the explanation is clear in the cognitive developmental psychology that studies mathematical learning ability and its development process. Therefore, it will be very helpful for students and graduate students in the field of cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and educational psychology as well as special education students to look for mathematical development and its educational implications.

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Published October 10, 2012

About the author

David C. Geary is a cognitive developmental and evolutionary psychologist with interests in mathematical learning and sex differences. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of California at Riverside, he held faculty positions at the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Missouri, first at the Rolla campus and then in Columbia. Dr. Geary is currently a Curators' Professor and a Thomas Jefferson Fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences, and served as department chair from 2002-2005. He has published more than 240 articles and chapters across a wide range of topics, including cognitive, developmental, and evolutionary psychology, education, and medicine, including three sole-authored books, Children's mathematical development (1994), Male, female: The evolution of human sex differences (1998, now in second edition. 2010), and The origin of mind: Evolution of brain, cognition, and general intelligence (2005), and one co-authored book, Sex differences: Summarizing more than a century of scientific research (Ellis et al., 2008). He is co-editing a series of five books on Advances in Mathematical Cognition and Learning with Drs. Dan Berch and Kathy Mann Koepke. The first volume, Evolutionary origins and early development of basic number processing should be published in late 2014 or early 2015. He has given invited addresses in a variety of departments (anthropology, biology, behavior genetics, computer science, education, government, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, and psychology) and Universities throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe and East Asia.