Piaget

This week in class we discussed and learned about child development.  Infants and childs almost go through stages as they grow up, but they gradually grow into new stages; they don't just magically happen to the child.  During class this week we watched a video about a smaller child not being able to determine what is fair, but then a child around the age of five being able to say yes, this is fair.  Luckily for me at home I have a little brother who is three years old, and i decided to try out one of those experiments from the video.  So, I sat my brother down at a table so he would focus.  Then I gave him one half of a graham cracker, and I gave myself two halves of a graham cracker, and I asked him if this was fair.  He said no it isn't, because I had two and he only had one.  Next I proceeded to break his half into two pieces, not giving him any extra graham crackers.  I asked him again, is this fair?  Hah he said ,"yes, it is fair! I have two and you have two."  This just shows that he is too young to determine volume yet, he thought we had the same amount when he actually had half of what I had.