CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -With respect to cognitive development, ability to order items along a quantitative dimension is called seriation. Seriation, or ordering activities, involve challenging children to place certain items in order, according to a criteria, such as longest to shortest, thickest to thinnest, smallest to biggest, etc.

Detailed explanation-2: -Seriation is arranging objects in order by size, location or position. Ordering requires the ability to see differences and compare multiple objects.

Detailed explanation-3: -Seriation involves the ability to put things in order based on quantity or magnitude. When we count numbers in order, we are demonstrating our ability to seriate, because numbers represent in abstract or generic form, specific quantities of things.

Detailed explanation-4: -Finally, there is seriation, which is the ability to group objects based on height, weight, and/or importance. An example of a seriation exercise would be: children putting objects in order from short to tall, thin to big, small to large, or of importance, and so forth.

Detailed explanation-5: -the ability to order objects based on one dimension, for example ‘length’.