TY - BOOK ID - 80005977 TI - The cradle of culture and what children know about writing and numbers before being taught PY - 2003 SN - 0805838430 1410607194 9781410607195 9780805838435 0805844848 9780805844849 1282322079 9786612322075 9781135647964 9781135648008 9781135648015 9781282322073 6612322071 PB - Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, DB - UniCat KW - Developmental psychology KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Children KW - Child development. KW - Literacy. KW - Numeracy. KW - Mathematical ability KW - Mathematics KW - Statistics KW - Illiteracy KW - Education KW - General education KW - Child study KW - Development, Child KW - Developmental biology KW - Writing KW - Writing. KW - Development UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80005977 AB - 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 ER -