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What are the applications of Piaget's theory of cognitive development?

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- Parents can use Piaget's theory when deciding how to support, what to buy in order to support their child's growth.

- Teachers can use Piaget's theory, for instance when discussing whether the syllabus subjects are suitable for the level of students or not. For example, recent studies have shown that children in the same grade and of the same age perform differentially on tasks measuring basic addition and subtraction fluency.

- The need for educators to individualize and adopt appropriate academic expectations appears to be most relevant for children at the first-grade level.

- While children in the preoperational and concrete operational levels of cognitive development perform combined arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction) with similar accuracy, children in the concrete operational level of cognitive development have been able to perform both addition problems and subtraction problems with overall greater fluency. The ability to perform mathematical operations fluently indicates a level of skill mastery and a readiness to learn more advanced mathematical problems. Teachers who work with children in both the preoperational and the concrete operational levels of cognitive development should adopt suitable academic expectations with regard to children's cognitive developmental abilities.

Lellah answered the question on August 4, 2021 at 13:32

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