ABSTRACT
First published in 1974. This is Volume VIII of selected works of Jean Piaget which along with Burbel Inhelder, looks at how children construct continuous quantity. That is where a quantity that is even more general than number or measurement, and gets included as special cases, namely the extensive quantity characterized by the comparison of the parts without the specification of a unit.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |63 pages
Conservation
chapter |25 pages
The Conservation of Weight upon Deformations of a Clay Ball 1
chapter |17 pages
The Conservation of Volume at Equal Concentrations of Matter
part |52 pages
From Conservation to Atomism
chapter |14 pages
The Destruction of Matter and the Dissolution of Sugar
chapter |17 pages
The Conservation of the Sugar and the Beginning of Atomism
part |64 pages
Compression, Decompression and Density
chapter |18 pages
The Expansion of a Maize Seed and of a Column of Mercury 1
chapter |17 pages
Differences in Density
part |88 pages
Formal Compositions