A classic study on this
Children's understanding of counting
Karen Wynn · 1990 · Cognition
- Children
- About 40 children
- Where
- Not given in the summary we read
- Ages
- 2 to 3½ years
- How
- Researchers asked children to give a puppet a number of toys
- What it found
- Young children could count before they understood that the last number counted tells you how many, which came at roughly 3½ years.
- Limits
- We have only read the summary.