Considering Piaget's theory of cognitive development, we would expect a student in the concrete operational stage to have the greatest difficulty with which one of the following questions?
a. An apple pie is cut into 4 pieces. A blueberry pie of the same size is cut into 12 pieces. How many pieces of blueberry pie do you need to have the same amount as 3 pieces of the apple pie?
b. In what way are an apple and a blueberry alike?
c. If we have one row of blueberries arranged like so: o o o o o o
and another row of blueberries arranged like so: o o o o o o
then does one row have more blueberries than the other?
d. If you have 8 Macintosh apples and 2 Jonathan apples, then do you have more Macintoshes or more apples?
Question 2
Joel is loud and disruptive in Miss Taylor's class today. Who owns this problem?
a. Joel
b. the principal
c. Joel and Miss Taylor
d. Miss Taylor