Digits Grasp Digits: Numbers on Your Fingertips

Barrocas, Roberta; Ninaus, Manuel; Tsarava, Katerina; Gawrilow, Caterina; Lachmair, Martin; Roesch, Stephanie; Moeller, Korbinian

doi:10.21125/edulearn.2019.1714

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“…To ensure a child-friendly and engaging environment, the study was embedded in a story about the alien Finn (see also Barrocas et al (2019) for more details on the story and character Finn implemented in a game-based app). Children learned that, unfortunately, Finn does not have arms and fingers which makes it hard for him to learn about numbers.…”

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The emerging association of canonical finger patterns and quantity-number linkage in early childhood

Bahnmueller¹,

Barrocas²,

Moeller³

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Through repeated use of fingers for counting and representing numerical magnitudes in early childhood, specific finger patterns become associated with mental representations of specific quantities. Although children as young as three years of age already use their fingers for representing numerical quantities, evidence on advantageous recognition of such canonical compared to non-canonical finger patterns as well as its association with numerical skills in young children is scarce. In this study, we investigated the performance of N=101 children aged around four years in canonical vs. non-canonical finger pattern recognition and its concurrent association with skills tapping into children’s’ knowledge about quantity-number linkage. Extending previous findings observed for older children, the present results indicated that despite considerable variability on the individual level performance in canonical finger pattern recognition was better compared to non-canonical finger pattern recognition on the group level. Moreover, both canonical and non-canonical finger pattern recognition was positively correlated with tasks tapping into quantity-number linkage. However, when controlling for verbal counting skills, correlations that remained significant were only found for canonical but not non-canonical finger pattern recognition performance. Overall, these results provide insights into the early onset and significance of the effect of canonicity in finger pattern recognition during early numerical development.

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confidence: 99%