News Finding: "But it was remarkable that even the youngest children showed at least some understanding of multi-digit numbers."
Paper Finding: task and the opposite was true for the Which is more?
News Context: "There was a significant improvement in interpreting place value from age three to seven," said Mix in a news release. "But it was remarkable that even the youngest children showed at least some understanding of multi-digit numbers." The researchers believe that it's very possible that the young children could understand the numbers due to the fact that in today's society, they're bombarded with multi-digit numbers--from phone numbers to street addresses to price tags.
Paper Context: At pretest, children in both groups performed significantly above chance on the numerals items, but not on blocks or dots, on the Which is x? task and the opposite was true for the Which is more? Both groups performed significantly above chance on average following training: