ILTS 206 Sub-Area 1 Practice Question #02
Children need to experience the physical representation of numbers before they can understand the symbolic representation of number. This is according to the theory of
Best Response: D
Jean Piaget
This question aligns with the idea that young children need lots of hands-on experiences manipulating actual objects in order to construct an understanding of number concepts. Once children build and internalize number sense, they can more readily shift to thinking about numbers in more abstract ways (number symbols, mental math, etc.)