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Hamilton L. Hardison – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Angularity is a persistent quantity throughout K-12+ school mathematics, and many studies have shown that individuals often conflate angularity with linear attributes (e.g., the length of an angle model's sides). However, few studies have examined the productive ways in which students might reason about angularity while attending to linear…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Geometry, Spatial Ability
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Gridos, Panagiotis; Avgerinos, Evgenios; Deliyianni, Eleni; Elia, Iliada; Gagatsis, Athanasios; Geitona, Zoi – European Educational Researcher, 2021
This study aims to examine the relation between spatial ability and creativity in Geometry. Data was collected from 94 ninth graders. Three spatial abilities were investigated: spatial visualization, spatial relations and closure flexibility. As for students' creativity, it was examined through a multiple solution problem in Geometry focusing on…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Creativity, Geometry, Problem Solving
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Bergström, Tove; Gunnarsson, Gunilla; Olteanu, Constanta – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
This article is intended to contribute to greater knowledge regarding the importance of flow and the time used to perform an activity, with a focus on students' mathematical experiences of 3D bodies. Thirty-one 9th-grade students took part in the study. Flow and variation theory was used in the analysis of lesson observations, submission tasks,…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts
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de Brito, Luciana Pereira; Almeida, Leandro Silva; Osório, António José – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2021
Digital simulators have an interesting potential to explain the relationships between two or more variables in a system, facilitating the activation of learning processes and favoring the occurrence of meaningful learning with positive impact on academic performance. To study the impact of the use of digital simulation on learning and academic…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 9, Mathematics Skills
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Yuliardi, Ricki; Rosjanuardi, Rizky – Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2021
The relationship between spatial conceptions and students' spatial abilities is still rarely studied specifically, even though this is the basis for students to think in learning geometry. This paper aims to explore spatial abilities and the development of spatial ability theory, discusses the relationship between spatial conceptions in students'…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Transformations (Mathematics), Geometry, Geometric Concepts
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Fujita, Taro; Kondo, Yutaka; Kumakura, Hiroyuki; Kunimune, Susumu; Jones, Keith – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2020
Given the important role played by students' spatial reasoning skills, in this paper we analyse how students use these skills to solve problems involving 2D representations of 3D geometrical shapes. Using data from in total 1357 grades 4 to 9 students, we examine how they visualise shapes in the given diagrams and make use of properties of shapes…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Geometry, Grade 4
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Zhang, Dake; Indyk, Amanda; Greenstein, Steven – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
Schematic chunks denote patterns, schemes, or sophisticated rules and knowledge stored in the long-term memory in the form of chunks. We investigated whether schematic chunking is effective in improving the performance of students with math difficulties (MD) and students at risk of math failure, and how the complexity level of geometry problems…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, At Risk Students
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Walkington, Candace; Wang, Min; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Collaborative gestures in the mathematics classroom occur when multiple learners coordinate their bodies in concert to accomplish mathematical goals. Collaborative gestures show how cognition becomes distributed across a system of dynamic agents, allowing for members of groups of students to act and gesture as one. We explore ways high school…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, High School Students, Video Games, Grade 9
Siemon, Dianne; Day, Lorraine; Stephens, Max; Horne, Marj; Callingham, Rosemary; Watson, Jane; Seah, Rebecca – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2017
The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics calls for the concurrent development of mathematical skills and mathematical reasoning. What are the big ideas of mathematical reasoning and is it possible to map their learning trajectories? Using rich assessment tasks designed for middle-years students of mathematics, this symposium reports on the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Thinking Skills, Middle School Students
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Ho, Siew Yin; Ramful, Ajay; Lowrie, Tom – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
This case study contrasts the strategies used by two students in solving bilateral symmetry and reflection tasks, based on the differential properties they attended to. The ninth grader focussed on congruence of sides as the main property of reflection whereas the eighth grader focussed on perpendicularity and equi-distance, as is the normative…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Geometry, Problem Solving, Grade 9
Patahuddin, Sitti; Logan, Tracy; Ramful, Ajay – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2018
This paper attempted to make explicit some of the underlying characteristics of spatial visualisation using the concept of area of composite shapes. By engaging students with metric-free tasks, we identify the type of perceptual and visual/spatial manoeuvres that they deploy in such situations. Interview data collected from three students in Grade…
Descriptors: Visualization, Spatial Ability, Task Analysis, Grade 7
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Kyttala, Minna; Lehto, Juhani E. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
Passive and active visuospatial working memory (VSWM) were investigated in relation to maths performance. The mental rotation task was employed as a measure of active VSWM whereas passive VSWM was investigated using a modified Corsi Blocks task and a matrix pattern task. The Raven Progressive Matrices Test measured fluid intelligence. A total of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Mental Computation, Memory, Word Problems (Mathematics)