Howie and His Little Sister,Stephie,are Each Given One Large Cookie

question 80

Multiple Choice

Howie and his little sister,Stephie,are each given one large cookie.The mother breaks Stephie's cookie into four pieces to help her eat it more easily.Howie immediately begins to cry and says that it isn't fair for Stephie to get so many cookies when he only has one.Howie is showing a lack of:

• A)centration.
• B)conservation.
• C)intuitive thought.
• D)symbolic function.

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Definitions:

Quadrants

The four regions of a Cartesian plane divided by the x-axis and y-axis.

Rectangular Coordinate

A system of specifying points on a plane using two distances, typically known as the x and y coordinates, which define the position relative to two perpendicular axes.

Square

To multiply a number by itself, or a geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles.

Y-axis

The vertical line in a coordinate plane that measures the second coordinate of a point (its ordinate).