ABSTRACT
One of the most notable things about children is that they are very organized, intelligent, and adaptive. They have the ability to acquire a prodigious amount of information about their world and to represent and interpret that infor mation in a way that not only makes sense but equips them to solve a huge, and largely unpredictable, array of problems. This book is about how chil dren acquire information, how they represent it, and how they use it to build problem-solving skills. With this information 1 hope to explain why children understand things the way they do and how they use that understanding in solving problems.
