Interviews with 4- to 8-year olds indicated that children's understanding of how it is that they can see object develops gradually. This article presents a map of this development in terms of two distinct modes of cognitive functioning, the ikonic mode and concrete symbolic mode, drawn from the interviews and the SOLO (Structure of Learning…

Twenty-four children in kindergarten through fourth grade were interviewed and asked to share a pancake fairly among three dolls. The context was chosen to allow children to use out-of-school intuition and understanding if preferred. Four levels of development were identified leading to the understanding of fair fractions as those where each part…

Describes a study that compared the effects of microworld microcomputer training and real world training on sorting behaviors of 2- and 3-year-olds. Discussion of the relationship between cognitive development and the ability to process microworld training focuses on different reactions between the two age groups. (42 references) (CLB)