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Karen Fuson

Disciplines:
developmental psychology
mathematics/mathematics education

Summary

American developmental psychologist who has studied how children learn to count and develop number concepts through a sequence of stages.

Core Contribution

Children's Counting and Concepts of Number: detailed account of the sequence through which children come to understand counting — from rote sequence to one-to-one correspondence to cardinality.

Notable Works & Achievements

Children's Counting and Concepts of Number

Historical Influences

Jean Piaget

Intellectual Lineage

Developmental Psychology

Contemporaries & Peers

Rochel Gelman

Minds Influenced

Mathematics Education Research

Intellectual Posterity

Mathematics Education

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