Jennifer haphazardly places eight sticks of different lengths on a table. She then asks her students to order the sticks by length. What will the result look like if the students are in Piaget's concrete operational stage? How will it differ if the students were in Piaget's preoperational stage instead?
What will be an ideal response?
Students' answers may vary.
Jennifer is testing whether the students are capable of seriation or not. If the students are in Piaget's concrete operational stage, they will simultaneously understand that each stick must be longer than the one that precedes it and shorter than the one that follows it. They will be able to correctly order the sticks by length-the ability called seriation. If the students are in Piaget's preoperational stage instead, they might end up making two or three small groups of big sticks and small sticks. Another possibility is that they might evenly line up the tops of the sticks but ignore the bottoms.
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