Child's Construction of Quantities : Selected Works vol 8

Piaget, Jean/ Inhelder, Bärbel/ Pomerans, Arnold J. (EDT)

Routledge（2013/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 292 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415863155
• DDC分類 155.4

Full Description

First published in 1974. This is Volume VIII of selected works of Jean Piaget which along with Burbel Inhelder, looks at how children construct continuous quantity. That is where a quantity that is even more general than number or measurement, and gets included as special cases, namely the extensive quantity characterized by the comparison of the parts without the specification of a unit.

Contents

Part 1 Conservation; Chapter 1 The Conservation of Matter and Deformations of a Ball of Modelling Clay; Chapter 2 The Conservation of Weight upon Deformations of a Clay Ball1In collaboration with Kiazim Osman.; Chapter 3 The Conservation of Volume at Equal Concentrations of Matter; Part 2 From Conservation to Atomism; Chapter 4 The Destruction of Matter and the Dissolution of Sugar; Chapter 5 The Conservation of the Sugar and the Beginning of Atomism; Chapter 6 The Conservation of the Weight and Volume of the Dissolved Sugar and the Completion of Atomism; Part 3 Compression, Decompression and Density; Chapter 7 The Expansion of a Maize Seed and of a Column of Mercury1In collaboration with Nelly Gruner.; Chapter 8 Differences in Density; Chapter 9 Special Problems Posed by the Relationship between Weight and Quantity of Matter1In collaboration with Trude Strauss.; Part 4 Formal Compositions; Chapter 10 The Composition of Asymmetrical Relations and Differences in Weight; Chapter 11 Simple and Additive Compositions of Equivalent Weights1In collaboration with Mme Ingold-Favroz-Coune.; Chapter 12 Simple and Additive Compositions of Equivalent Volumes and the Discovery of the Displacement Law;