conserve sets.Many of my college students come to me without
knowing their math facts. Some do, but most do not. Since we use
calculators in the class, it really isn't an issue. It just
takes those students longer to do a test or their homework. One
day, the students in my Basic Algebra Concepts class (a remedial
math class) were playing a math game to practice adding and
subtracting positive and negative numbers. We were using double
die (see picture) where a small dice is located inside a larger
dice. (I have to keep an eye on these because they tend to
"disappear". The students love them!) I noticed one of my
students continually counting the dots on the die. He was unable
to see the group of dots and know how many were in the set. It
was then that I realized he could not Conserving sets means that
a person can look at a grouping or a set and identify how many
there are without individually counting them. (i.e. three
fingers that are held up) When a child is unable to do this,
they cannot memorize math fac