What percentage of 26 month old toddlers can identify 8 basic shapes,
i.e., point to the cirlce, point to the square, point to the triangle

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Request for Question Clarification by ragingacademic-ga on 02 Feb 2004 11:01 PST

karen30115 - hi.  Very interesting question and thanks for submitting it.

I can give you two data points - both my children who have reached
that age could do that and more...but of course that's not what you
are looking for :-)

Seriously - most likely, no one has researched that exact question -
i.e. 8 shapes at 26 months of age - what alernative research would
suffice?

thanks,
ragingacademic

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Clarification of Question by karen30115-ga on 03 Feb 2004 12:19 PST

I guess the best variation that would still be of value would be this:
at what age can 50% of children identify 8 shapes from a picture?

Ressearchers,

See related question.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=301949

My twin dughters who are no geniuses could identify squares, circles,
triangles, rectangles, diamonds, crescents, semi-circles and stars
before the age of two. By two and a half they could identify quite a
few more shapes.