A study of 60- to 89-mo.-old children's skill at writing numerals.
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.
Arnas
Yaşare Aktaş
YA
Department of Kindergarten Teacher Training, Faculty of Education, Cukurova Universitesi, Adana, Turkey. yasare@cu.edu.tr
Siğirtmaç
Ayperi Dikici
AD
Gül
Ebru Deretarla
ED
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*