Logical-mathematical development: a perspective from speech therapy

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: In this research we aim to determine the acquisition and development of the Logical Mathematical process in children aged 0-7 years, identifying skills that allow them to solve basic operations, analyze information, make use of reflective thinking and knowledge of the world to apply it to everyday life, making a tour of the academic, theoretical and therapeutic history on development, stimulation, processes and events that favor logical development and that determine its importance in the life of the being. METHODS: It is developed from a Cochrane systematic review, about the development and acquisition of the Logical Mathematical process and the most commonly used evaluation tests at these ages. A search was carried out in scientific and non-scientific databases and in additional sources of published trials. RESULTS: A total of 33,763 studies were found according to the established criteria, of which 23 were included. An inventory of the available methodologies was made, describing their properties, aspects to be evaluated and ages of application. ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION: Mathematics is a socially and historically situated cultural activity, influenced by practical criteria of utility and intentionality and based on everyday practices such as counting, measuring, locating, designing, playing or explaining. CONCLUSIONS: According to the Piagetian approach, the physical and social world in which young children develop gives them the opportunity to acquire numerous concepts related to arithmetic, before formal education.