Four-year-olds generally can't understand that subtraction undoes addition, as in 2 + 3 = 5 and 5 - 2 = 3. This is because their cognitive structures are

A) artificial.
B) assimilated.
C) not reversible.
D) internalized.


C) not reversible. If we have 4 and take 2 away, we need to understand that we can return to 4 by adding 2 back.

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