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FELD, Victor  e  PIGHIN, María Fernanda. Acquisition of number and mathematical notions. Evaluation in preschool children. Neuropsicologia Latinoamericana [online]. 2024, vol.16, n.3, pp.4-15.  Epub 05-Dez-2025. ISSN 2075-9479.  https://doi.org/10.5579/rnl.2024.0879.

The cognitive processes involved in the acquisition of number and calculation, present a particular study interest, regarding their close relation with neurophysiological, pedagogical and historical-social processes tied to the child context. This work aimed to deep in the knowledge of this process in 5-year-old preschool kids, before the beginning of primary school. The sample consists of 200 children between 4 years and 8 months and 5 years and 11 months, who attend to kindergartens in localities under the radius of influence of the National University of Lujan, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and belonging to three different socio-economic and cultural groups. The research is of empirical type, with an ex post facto, descriptive and correlational design. A specific instrument of evaluation was designed, constituted by different types of tasks whose items were elaborated considering the evolutionary and didactic aspects of the population in which it was applied. For data analysis, SPSS program was used and qualitative analysis of the strategies implemented by children for tasks’ resolution was performed. The instrument was statistically validated and general, individual and comparative characterizations were done.

Palavras-chave : math skills; preschooler; numerical learning; children evaluation; numeracy.

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