title: A study of 60- to 89-mo.-old children's skill at writing numerals.
abstract: The skill of writing numerals necessitates a certain developmental maturity. Studying the age at which children start to develop this skill and assessing problems they encounter while writing numerals should give direction to their training. From 8 schools a total of 267 children, ages 60 to 89 mo., were asked to write the numerals 1 to 9. Analysis showed that 80% of the children wrote most of the numerals correctly, 15% wrote inverted numerals, 2.0% wrote some numerals as letters, and 4% did not write certain numerals at all. In addition, 64% of children ages 60 to 65 mo. gave correct responses, and the perception of correct responses increased across age groups until 95% were correct in the group who were 84 to 89 mo. There was no significant difference between girls and boys in these writing skills.
authors.affiliation: Department of Kindergarten Teacher Training, Faculty of Education, Cukurova Universitesi, Adana, Turkey. yasare@cu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Yaşare Aktaş
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Arnas
authors.forename: Ayperi Dikici
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Siğirtmaç
authors.forename: Ebru Deretarla
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Gül
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*