Nine-year-old Esther helps her mother rolls pieces of cookie dough into balls
Esther notices that after she rolls each ball, it somehow looks smaller than when it was just a piece of dough! But then she realizes that rolling has only changed the shape, without changing the amount of dough. By carefully watching the effect of rolling, Esther shows that she understands
A) dynamic transformations.
B) working memory.
C) inventive spelling.
D) subitizing.
A) dynamic transformations. Esther learns to recognize that the static stages (the piece of dough and ball of dough) are related to each other through the dynamic transformation of rolling.
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