Piagetian Conservation Tasks Case Study

Summary My case topic is Regina Holms from the county elementary school second grader. Before interviewing this topic, I got permission from my parents. During the interview, Regina and I spoke at one of the seven Piagetian missions, Volume Mission. In this task, the development phase of Regina was decided. I chose a volume task. There, we had to recognize whether two different size glasses kept the same amount of water in each glass. In addition, we are focusing on internal and extrinsic motives, types of anxiety, and self-failure to observe her motives in this task.

In Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya, I learned about another aspect of Piaget's theory and specific business development. One study (Dasen, 1984) used 19 Piagetian 's challenges in three ways of protection, basic logic, and space. Protection task refers to the understanding of quantification (length, quantity, substance, weight, volume, etc.) and immutability behind apparent transformation. For example, if you put two glasses of the same shape and the same amount of liquid and one of them is poured into a different shape of glass, is there still the same amount of drink? Basic logic is the relationship between objects that represent object sorting methods (such as branches with different lengths) and classification methods (such as object types). More fruit? Using the mesh, place the object including the distance between the objects.

Certain Piaget tasks (such as conservation tasks) have often been suggested to provide a good basis for students to determine motivation to learn school mathematics. But Hiebert and Carpenter (1982) pointed out that existing research evidence suggests that Piaget's mission is not a useful measure of motivation. The hypothesis is that Piagetian's mission can be used to identify children who can not benefit from mathematics education, but all available evidence clearly indicates that the hypothesis is invalid is showing. Conversely, many children who miss Piaget's mission can learn mathematical concepts and skills.