ABSTRACT
This book was first published in 1967. This volume presents two areas of Piaget's work on the child's conception of Geometry and then also to Space which were initially published in 1948. It acts as an introduction to Piaget's work in the hope of rousing the interest of teachers with the aim of helping children to learn mathematics by helping them to understand how children form mathematical ideas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|9 pages
Introduction
part Two|16 pages
Conservation and measurement of length
part Three|20 pages
Rectangular co-ordinates, angles and curves
part Four|22 pages
Areas and Solids
part Five|3 pages
Conclusions
part One
Topological space
part Two
Projective space
part Three
The transition from projective to Euclidean space