Collette is sitting with her young son Jim, and has placed five different color jellybeans in front of him. Jim starts to count the beans, and as he points to each one says, "one, one, one, one, one!" He then looks up at Collette and smiles. Jim clearly has not yet mastered the
A) stable-order principle.
B) one-to-one principle.
C) cardinality principle.
D) universality principle.

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Jim has not yet mastered the one-to-one principle, which involves understanding that each object should be counted only once and have a corresponding number word. In this case, Jim is saying "one" five times as he points to each bean, indicating that he may not understand this principle yet.

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