Cognitive Development And Mathematics Education

Hie development of cognition means a person' s gain to knowledge and his ability to solve problems,which is a developmental phenomenon and process as time goes on.The theory of cognition development of swiss psychologist Jean Piaget(l896 - 1980) emphasized the restricted function of cognition development towards study, and she also emphasized that teaching should meet the needs of students' cognition development. But the Russian Psychologist(c.BblrorcKHH 1896- 1934) advocated that "teaching should be done before the development" what the said meant that the important task of teaching was to create the recent developmental area. Therefore we maintain that on one hand we teach according to children's psychological deveolopment that is according to the charac-teristics of superiority of children' s cognition development, on the other hand we should carefully plan the teaching contents and activities in order to promote the children's cog-nition development.Based on Jean Piaget' s theory of cognition development and a. c. BblrotcKIIH' s theo-ry of recent developental area, this paper intends to combine the author' s many years' teaching experience to explore students' characteristics and rules in different developmen-tal stage, to understand the creative process of recent developmental area by using the con-cent of assimilation, accommodation and equilibrium, and to construct the creative patlern of recent developmental area from congnition development.