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Download full textHowe, Ann C. – 1972
Twenty second- and third-grade children were tested on their ability to make judgements of certain area and volume equivalences. The children were then presented a conservation-of-liquid task. Of the 17 children who gave correct conservation responses, only two had solved the area and volume problems. Thus, contrary to what is suggested by…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Elementary School Science
