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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Evolution of Finger Counting between Kindergarten and Grade 2.

Céline Poletti, Marie Krenger, Justine Dupont-Boime, Catherine Thevenot

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Céline PolettiInstitute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1591-5225
Marie KrengerInstitute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Justine Dupont-BoimePsychology Section, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Catherine ThevenotInstitute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4997-1882

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation 100014_159304Swiss National Science Foundation 100014_204271
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this longitudinal study, we aimed at determining whether children who efficiently use finger counting are more likely to develop internalized arithmetic strategies than children who are less efficient. More precisely, we analyzed the behavior of 24 kindergarteners aged between 5 and 6 years who used their fingers to solve addition problems, and we were interested in determining the evolution of their finger counting strategies towards mental strategies after 2 years (Grade 2). Our results show that kindergarteners who were the most proficient in calculating on fingers were the more likely to have abandoned this strategy in Grade 2. This shows that the use of efficient finger counting strategies early during development optimizes the shift to mental strategies later on during school years. Moreover, children who still use their fingers to solve additions in Grade 2 present lower working memory capacities than children who had already abandoned this strategy.

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arithmeticcalculationfinger useindividual differencesnumerical cognition

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PMID35204853
PMCPMC8869778

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