According to a recent research, children who have developed their counting skills more are much more likely to share with their peers, a skill that usually develops around the age of 4-6.
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According to new research, children's ability to share resources impartially is connected to theirs ability to count. Previous research has already shown that sharing behavior is a skill that is learned between the ages of four and six.
Scholars from Harvard University, Boston College, and the University of California examined children's sharing behavior in relation to their knowledge of numbers, working memory and cognitive control.
The new study published in Child Development showed that the counting skills were the biggest predictor of sharing behavior in children, and that pushing children to count also improves this behavior.
A systematic review
The researchers evaluated these abilities based on the results of two studies, using a pre-post-test design in which little ones were given a series of tasks in which they distributed stickers between themselves and another individual. In both studies, parents completed an optional demographic form.
Of these participants, 79% of parents reported their child's ethnicity was white, 8% Asian or Pacific Islander, 4% black, 4% multiracial, and 2% did not report a race. or an ethnicity.
The first study evaluated the sharing behaviors of ninety-seven children, between the ages of three and five. This study explored the relationship between sharing behavior and counting, the cognitive control and working memory.
The results provided strong evidence that counting skills are tied to fairer sharing. For children who hadn't yet learned to count, encouraging them to count improved their behavior.
In a second study with 219 children between the ages of three and five, the results showed once again that counting skills are strongly related to sharing.
The authors warn that one of the reasons young children often don't share may be because they are still learning to count.
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