You are a red magnetic Tyrannosaurus. A runaway train is speeding towards Ankylosaurus, but if you throw a switch it will hit Triceratops and Diplodocus instead. Which species should go extinct?
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I recommend Piaget (and colleagues/students/admirers) who had/have some fun games to play with kids to see/track their misc levels of understanding as they progress.
One of my favorites is the concept of number.
Make two rows of not-too-big objects your toddler is familiar with. Space them mostly parallel to each other. Count each row out, pointing to each one. Ask her to do the same. Obviously nearly every kid will want to try.
x x x x x x x x x x
x x x x x x x x x x
Then, space the objects in one row to be MUCH wider than the other row.
x x x x x x x x x x
x x x x x x x x x x
Ask, “which row has more?”
Of course they don’t know what ‘row’ means, but some elders think they do. ?
Up to some age, children will motion to the longer/wider row. In most cases at some point it dawns on them those words/numbers have a specific meaning and they can “put 2 and 2 together” and will next time be more accurate in those matters. ~ “There’s the same number of items in each row.”
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