The present paper reports on the abilities of young students to pose a problem and explores how these abilities relate to the solutions suggested as well as whether the age of the student influences these abilities. Specifically, twenty-seven 6-year-olds and thirty 9-year-olds from two state schools located in Volos, a small provincial town in…

This research investigated developmental shifts in the character of children's tool using activity in the domain of scale drawing. Fifty-five children from three grade levels (grades 3, 5, and 7) were individually interviewed as they participated in both enlarging and reducing a one-dimensional object, the letter "F," to a scale of four.…