On February 16, 2016 I performed the graham cracker conservation activity on 5-year-old Kiara and 8-year-old jasmine. I took a whole piece of graham cracker and broke it into 2 pieces and put it on my side. Then I took 2 fourth pieces and gave them to Kiara. I asked her if we shared them equally. She looked for a second, paused and finally grabbed all the pieces and held them next to each other. She said, “no, yours are bigger than mine.” I started off the same way with jasmine. Jasmine said, “Well obviously yours are bigger.” The only thing different was that jasmine didn’t have to pick them to tell that mine were bigger. Kiara understood why she said what she said because she used comparison to tell how big they were next to each other. According
