Piaget-Tasks

I chose my sister Abby, she is the youngest in our family and she is just barely eight years old. I did three tasks with her. First I did the task of the dough. I rolled the balls to be equal and smashed one after asking the first question. With out hesitation she got it right. She said something to the effect of, "Duh, Porsh, you just smashed it. That was easy!" So, she was really confident with her answer I'd say. Some back round on Abby, is that she is the youngest by seven years, she was a straggler in our family and she participates in games and conversations the older children have and can keep up with us. She is really good at games and concepts that I remember struggling with when I was her age. I think that since she hasn't really had younger children to be associated with, she has grown up faster then our other siblings and I. The second task I did with Abby was the pennies, I had two rows of pennies that had ten in each row. I asked the first question and she got it right. I asked the second question and she still counted out each row. She didn't count the pennies by touching them, she also counted in her head. I thought that was pretty advanced for her because not so long ago she was counting out loud. The third task I used identical pens, I lined them up and asked the first question and she got it right. I asked the second question and she got it right and also thought I was asking her a "duh" question. It was interesting to see how you could see her almost thinking with the pennies and I would have liked to have done these with her on an annual basis because I thought this was very interesting. She thought that the tasks were easy but she had fun with it because I let her keep the pennies. After doing this experiment, I can't wait to have kids so I can do this with them and see how the stages progress and the answers that are given. I really enjoyed doing this, it really caught my interest. I think for fun I am just going to go through some of the tasks with my little cousins around Thanksgiving.