TY - JOUR
TI - Finger counting and its role in the development of math competence
	 
AU - Szczygieł, Monika
AU - Cipora, Krzysztof
AU - Hohol, Mateusz
TI - Finger counting and its role in the development of math competence
	 
AB - Finger counting plays an important role in mathematical cognition, especially in the acquisition of the concept of number and elementary math competence. Fingers are spontaneously used to count because of their constant availability and easiness of manipulation. Stable counting order within hand facilitates the acquisition of ordinal as well as cardinal numbers. Additionally, using fingers to count alleviates working memory load and allows constant control of counting accuracy. Apart from the usefulness for counting practice, cognitive representations of fingers are strongly interconnected with representations of numbers. Finger gnosis (the quality of the brain representations of fingers) is a good predictor of current as well as future math achievement. There is also evidence that the training of finger differentiation leads to improvements in math achievement.
VL - 2015
IS - Volume 20, Issue 3
PY - 2015
SN - 1895-6297
C1 - 2084-3879
SP - 23
EP - 33
DO - 10.4467/20843879PR.15.014.3803
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/psychologia-rozwojowa/article/liczenie-na-palcach-w-ontogenezie-i-jego-znaczenie-dla-rozwoju-kompetencji-matematycznych
KW - cognitive development
KW - mathematical cognition
KW - finger counting
KW - finger gnosis