Order analysis of responses by kindergarteners and first-graders did not support a linear order of task mastery as predicted by Brainerd's ordinal theory of number development. A more complex structure of the relations among the tasks was noted with magnitude-same-density ordering a prerequisite to ordination and number, and both of these as prerequisites to cardination.
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