A teacher provides students with a table of the U.S. population census figures for every ten years since the census-taking began, asks the students to plot the numbers on a graph, and then estimate what the U.S. population will be in 10, 20, and 30 years from now. What stage of cognitive development is the teacher accommodating?
a. Sensory-motor
b. Preoperational
c. Concrete operational
d. Formal operational
e. All of the above
f. None of the above
d. Formal operational
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