In one elementary school curriculum, mathematical variables first appear in the sixth grade. According to Piaget, they are not introduced in the fifth grade because:

A) Preoperational children cannot reason with post conventional thinking
B) children in the concrete operational stage cannot reason with hypothetical entities
C) children are in capable of understanding the concept of conservation and reversibility until the beginning of the formal operational period
D) Preoperational children lacks The capability of symbolic thinking

Ans: B) children in the concrete operational stage cannot reason with hypothetical entities

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