3V1416.1

3V1416.01 A Big Penny and a Little One (12/8/81) We went to Boston this day for a pre-Christmas visit. Rob hung around LCSI with me. Miriam took Peggy over to the Childrens Museum. Late in the day, the kids were going out with Greg to buy sodas and Peggy — of course — wanted to …

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3V1275.1

3V1275.01 Computer “rods” (7/20/81) Seeing the trouble she had with the rods always falling over, I asked is a Rods microworld would be easier to manipulate and thus intellectually more accessible to her. So I proceeded to make one, substituting (a later idea) the blinking of numbers in place of partial blanks — that is …

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3V1267.1

3V1267.01 Computer-based cuisenaire rods (7/12/81) Peggy enjoyed playing with the Cuisenaire rods during out experiment P181. Either in that one or the next P182, Peggy first accomplished a set of “stairs.” After the end of the experiment, she continued playing with rods and I heard her mention (at a point where she omitted the 3-length …

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3V1179.1

3V1179.01 Counting Plates with numbers in various ranges (4/15/81) Peggy loves to help empty the dishwasher. After stacking the small plates on the shelves, she began counting: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, etc…18… She continued from stack to stack, using ‘big’ numbers as well, “eighty, ninety, tendy” repeating them as well as smaller …

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3V0931.1

3V0931.01 Generalization; logical thinking accidentally wrong: pennies and quarters. (8/10/80) Peggy came running around the table. “Somebody left these pennies and quarters on the table,” she exclaimed as she handed them to me. There were two pennies and, folded up, two dollar bills. So Peggy knows two coin names and knows that both coins and …

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3V0865.1

3V0865.01 Counting with Mimi: alternate counting game (6/5/80) Miriam announced a game she and Peggy have been playing – a game of alternate counting. Miriam and Peg count alternately: M1, P2, M3, P4, M5, P6, M7, P7, M8, P9, M10, P11, M12, P12 6/8 note: Peg fast count from 4-11 by herself in the other …

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3V0749.1

3V0749.01 Words and Numbers; primary roots of discrimination (2/10/80) Miriam and Peggy play with my yardstick a lot (a free one from a local hardware store, it has the measure and advertisements on it). Miriam marches around with it on her shoulder: “hup, two, three, four; hup…” Peggy marches too, “hup, two, three; hup, two, …

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3V0747.3

3V0747.03 Number/temporal names (2/8/80) Miriam tells me she has asked Peggy the time and Peggy responded “eleven.” The answer was not correct but was significant as a number name. Peggy may have been imitating a specific response heard from some one else in response to the same question. Miriam asked again of Peggy, in my …

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3V0594.2

3V0594.02 ONE, TWO: [one, two]: note on standardization of Peggy’s counting 09/08/79; You can’t avoid counting, and it’s hard to avoid instructing those who don’t know what you know — but we’ve been trying to avoid instructing Peggy. The children are persistent, at odd moments that we can’t witness. So Peggy’s idiosyncratic counting [one, one, …

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3V0531.1

3V0531.01 COUNTING: beginning of notes. Cookies, hands, and counting (7/7/79) During interviews at IBM, Moshe Zloof raised the question of whether or not, in effect, counting is innate. I told him the question was a big one about which I felt no one could speak with authority but that I had very strong prejudices. As …

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LC1bT06

Protocol 6 in Natural Learning Study see “Complex Minds” in LC1bA3

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Vignette 106.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 133.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 132.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette130.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 129.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 123.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 121.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 119.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 116.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 108.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 105.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 100.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 82.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 79.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 65.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 62.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 58.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 55.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 54.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 49.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 43.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.