<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><p>I'm not aware of anything that Papert wrote about teaching
foundational skills like number (meaning integers) or basic literacy using phonics. </p></blockquote><div><br></div></div>self correction:<br>The Progressive Construction of Mind by Robert Lawler June 1980 (Logo Memo 57, MIT AI Lab) was probably supervised by Papert<br>
<br>Naturalistic study of his two children aged 6 (Miriam) and 8 (Robby) includes plenty of observations about how the kids learnt addition, subtraction etc. I need to reread this.<br>