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Thouless, Helen; Gifford, Sue – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2019
In this article we compare two frameworks for analysing young children's responses to the task of copying and extending a 6-dot triangle pattern. We used Mulligan & Mitchelmore's Awareness of Mathematical Pattern and Structure (AMPS) and then Biggs & Collis' SOLO taxonomy, both of which provide criteria for assigning levels. In comparison…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Pattern Recognition, Geometric Concepts, Disadvantaged Youth
Pasnak, Robert – Grantee Submission, 2017
Young children have been taught simple sequences of alternating shapes and colors, referred to as "patterning", for the past half century in the hope that their understanding of pre-algebra and their mathematics achievement would be improved. The evidence that such patterning instruction actually improves children's academic achievement…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Abstract Reasoning