ABSTRACT
Research into children’s ideas about science and mathematics-whether known under the title of ‘alternative frameworks’, ‘misconceptions’, ‘preconceptions’, etc. —has at least one important characteristic in common with the work of Piaget: it takes the child’s view of the world seriously. Piaget was one of the first to put forward the notion that children construct their own knowledge, this knowledge being seen as different in kind from that of an adult, evolving and changing over the years.
