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This book provides a thrilling description of preliterate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates well the many ways in which cultural artifacts influence the mind and vice versa. Remarkably, children treat writing and numerals as distinct even before they have received any formal training on the topic, and well before they learn how to use writing to represent messages and numerals to represent quantities.In this revolutionary new book, Liliana Tolchinsky argues that preliterate children's experiences with writing and numerals play an essential and

Developmental psychology --- Cognitive psychology --- Children --- Child development. --- Literacy. --- Numeracy. --- Mathematical ability --- Mathematics --- Statistics --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Child study --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Writing --- Writing. --- Development