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Natural Differentiation in a Pattern Environment (4 Year Old Children Make Patterns)

Many children have a well-developed, spontaneous and intuitive mathematical competence before their school education (Clarke, Clarke, Cheeseman, 2006). Researches in this field put a great emphasis on early numeracy and competence in counting, although in some articles the topic of "spatial and geometrical competence and concepts" is described as well. In these attempts, "spatial development" is described by relations like: behind, beside, in front of...; concepts are usually limited to the basic geometrical shapes: triangles, squares, circles. ...