Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The Growth Of Understanding In The Young Child -- I. Introduction -- II The Piagetian Picture Of The Child's Development -- 1. Keys To The Child's Mental Growth -- First 18 months -- sensori-motor phase -- 18 months to 4-5 years: stage of intuitive thought -- III The Concept Of Number -- IV Children's Basic Notions About Space, Movement And Time -- 1. The Notion Of Distance -- 2. The Notion Of Length -- 3. The Notion Of An Area -- 4. The Notions Of Linear And Circular Order -- Reproducing a linear order -- Turning a circular into a linear order -- Reversing the order -- Stacking in direct and reverse order -- 5. The Notion Of Order As Applied To Moving Bodies -- 6. The Notion Of Distances Travelled -- 7. The Notion Of Speed -- 8. The Notion Of Time: Succession, Duration And Simultaneity -- V Educational Bearings Of Piaget's Work -- Bibliogrphy -- New Light On Children's Ideas Of Number -- I. Introduction -- II Piaget On Number-Versus Our Common Assumptions -- 1. Our Common Assumptions: Counting As The Source Of Number And Of Arithmetic -- 2. Arithmetic As An Educational Problem: What Light Does Piaget Throw On This? -- III The Outcome Of The Experiments -- 1. Gulf Between Child's Ability To Count, And The "Idea" Of Number -- 2. Numbers As "Persisting" Products Of Counts, And Members Of A Realm Of Numbers -- 3. Surprising Nature Of Piaget's Findings -- IV The Presentation Of The Experiments-And The Experiments Themselves -- 1. Difficulties And Stumbling Blocks -- 2. The Experiments As Play Situations -- 3. Description Of Chief "Cardinal Number" Experiments -- 4. Typical Findings: Stage 1 -- 5. Typical Findings: Stages 2 And 3 -- 6. Experiments On Ordinal Number Ideas And Their Relation To Cardinal -- 7. Experiments On Children's Grasp Of Simple "Logical" Relations -- V General Discussion.

1. Piaget's Theory Of Number, And Its Relation To Logic -- VI Educational Bearings And Questions -- 1. Misunderstandings To Which Piaget's Work Lends Itself -- 2. Possible Educational Uses Of His Number Studies -- 3. The Odd Question Of Education In Logic Again: Perhaps Not So Unpractical After All? -- Bibliography -- Publisher's Bibliography -- Books By Jean Piaget -- Books About Piagetian Psychology.