Four-year-old Jack is a snack helper. He counts five children at his table and then retrieves five milk cartons. Jack is displaying an understanding of
A) ordinality.
B) functionality.
C) estimation.
D) cardinality.

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Jack's understanding of counting five children and retrieving five milk cartons shows his understanding of cardinality, which is the understanding that the last number counted represents the total number of items in a set.

Four-Year-Old Jack Is a Snack Helper