Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's Theory

Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's Theory, 2nd ed., Constance Kamii with Leslie Baker Housman, 2000. 256 pp., $23.95 paper. ISBN 0-8077-3904-9. Teachers College Press, P.O. Box 20, Williston, VT 05495-0020, [phone].

For the past twenty years, Constance Kamii has been asking educators in audiences in the United States and abroad how they think children acquire number concepts, such as the idea-not the word-of eight. The most common explanation that she has received is that children acquire number...