Steffi has been demonstrating a cluster of associated schemas that help her to understand aspects of the world. They include:
* Trajectories and transporting: She makes vertical, horizontal and oblique movements and carries objects from one point to another
* Enclosure and containment
* Core and radial: she co-ordinates graphic cores with radials, for example sun, spider
* One-to-one correspondence
* Classification: she creates sets and sub-sets (part-whole relationships)
* Seriation: she orders things according to size.
Case study Steffi (four years three months) is in her second year at nursery and is fascinated by animals. She uses the toy wild animals and dinosaurs a lot.
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