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The research reported is an attempt to explore 1 1-year-old children's approaches to the concept of volume. Six tasks have been devised to identify any commonalities in children's responses. Results suggest that children hold and use different conceptions in their effort to explain and compare aspects of volume. However, these conceptions fall in certain categories which are met in almost all the tasks: volume is the space occupied, the capacity, related to the material substance, related to the geometrical properties, related to the weight and indefinable. Children's comparing actions (justifications and strategies) have also been analyzed and characterized as tautological, phenomenological, experimental, or as referred to the properties of the object. Common patterns in children's conceptions and justifications across the different tasks showed a variety of possible approaches to volume which will probably be met in other contexts and are presented in the form of a systemic network. As our study indicates, the concept of volume is related to a number of factors like the shape and geometrical properties, the nature of the matter, the mass and the weight, the hollowness, and the op

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Author

Despina Potari; Vassiliki Spiliotopoulou

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley-Liss Inc.; John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0097-0352)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences