The report includes the full texts and bibliographical references of the speakers presented at the Seminar. Links between early childhood development and education and primary education . This document attempts to describe some of the efforts that are being made in China, Denmark, France, Guyana, India, Morocco and the United States of America. In order to strengthen the links needed in the earliest years of development and education, i.e. links with the home, community, primary school, etc. It is intended to stimulate interest in this area and to encourage the exchange of information on the approaches and strategies being used, as well as illustrating the lessons learnt.
Special emphasis is given to the rationale and examples of actions to develop such linkages.
The state of the world's children 1999 . The structural development of the concept of fraction by young children . Journal of Structural Learning and Intelligent Systems. Responses of 30 children from pre-grade 1 to grade 4 are used to illustrate the range of understanding of the partition of continuous and discreet fractions in the early years of schooling. The SOLO developmental model with multimodel functioning is used to classify responses and a clear developmental sequence for understanding the fraction one-third is delineated.