The purpose of this study is to examine how much degree four-years-old children formed the concept of number and to examine whether there were difference between males and females or not in the formation of number concept.
For this examination 48 fo...
The purpose of this study is to examine how much degree four-years-old children formed the concept of number and to examine whether there were difference between males and females or not in the formation of number concept.
For this examination 48 four-years-old children were sampled radmdomly in the Kim Chon city kong kuk provine who consisted of 26males and 22females.
Each subject was interviewed individually for about ten minute the concept of number counting, one-to-one correspondence, ordering, number comparison, number conservation, number names, number presentation, cardinal number and ordinal number, which are subdimensions of the number concept.
Measurement tasks used in this study were Number Concept Task of Piaget and Interesting Number Playing Task of Lee Won Yong(1986).
The data was analyzed with Qui Square(X2) analysis.
The major result were as follows.
First, in the formation of number concept of four years-old children, only 29. 2 % of the subjects could count over fifteen in unnumber counting, 52.1 % in one-to-one correspondence, 14. 6 % in ordering in order, 14. 6 % in putting number between numbers orderly 8.3 % in ordering reversely, which show that most of four_years_old children cannot form number concept in the above dimensions, while 83. 3 % of the subject formed in number comparision which is higher than in other dimensions of th e number concept.
In number conservation, 21% of the subject could perform which show that the children could perform number conservation less than in other dimensions.
In number names, 50.0% of the subjects and in number presentation, only 20.8% of the subjects performed.
In cordined number and ordinal number, only 25 % of the subjects performed. From listed above, it could have been found that most of children could fom only number comparison and ordering number reversely.
Second, It could have been found that there were undifferences in the formation of number comcept between males and females.