TY - GEN
T1 - Primary students’ spatial visualization and spatial orientation: An evidence base for instruction
AU - Diezmann, Carmel
AU - Lowrie, Tom
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper reports on the performance of 58 11 to 12-year-olds on a spatial visualization task and a spatial orientation task. The students completed these tasks and explained their thinking during individual interviews. The qualitative data were analysed to inform pedagogical content knowledge for spatial activities. The study revealed that “matching” or “matching and eliminating” were the typical strategies that students employed on these spatial tasks. However, errors in making associations between parts of the same or different shapes were noted. Students also experienced general difficulties with visual memory and language use to explain their thinking. The students’ specific difficulties in spatial visualization related to obscured items, the perspective used, and the placement and orientation of shapes.
AB - This paper reports on the performance of 58 11 to 12-year-olds on a spatial visualization task and a spatial orientation task. The students completed these tasks and explained their thinking during individual interviews. The qualitative data were analysed to inform pedagogical content knowledge for spatial activities. The study revealed that “matching” or “matching and eliminating” were the typical strategies that students employed on these spatial tasks. However, errors in making associations between parts of the same or different shapes were noted. Students also experienced general difficulties with visual memory and language use to explain their thinking. The students’ specific difficulties in spatial visualization related to obscured items, the perspective used, and the placement and orientation of shapes.
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9789602436523
VL - 2
T3 - Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
SP - 417
EP - 424
BT - In search for theories in mathematics education
A2 - Tzekaki, Marianna
A2 - Kaldrimidou, Maria
A2 - Sakonidis, Haralambos
PB - International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (IGPME) Inc
CY - Thessaloniki, Greece
T2 - 33rd annual conference of International Group for Psychology of Mathematics Education
Y2 - 19 July 2009 through 24 July 2009
ER -