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Lauren Baade; Effie Kartsonaki; Hassan Khosravi; Gwendolyn A. Lawrie – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
Effective learning in chemistry education requires students to understand visual representations across multiple conceptual levels. Essential to this process are visuospatial skills which enable students to interpret and manipulate these representations effectively. These abilities allow students to construct mental models that support problem…
Descriptors: Visualization, Thinking Skills, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving
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Duff, Signe M.; Van Bergen, Penny; Mulligan, Joanne – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2021
When young students engage with activities aimed at improving spatial reasoning, there is potential to also improve learning and performance in practical mathematics problem-solving tasks, scientific inquiries, and other STEM-based tasks. In this study, students worked in pairs to problem solve through 3D construction. The aim was to assess…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Spatial Ability, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving
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Cerovac, Milorad; Seemann, Kurt; Keane, Therese – Design and Technology Education, 2020
Australia has a long-standing interest in fostering innovation capabilities to drive its future prosperity. However, it has only been in recent years that an emphasis on developing these capabilities has been formally extended into the classroom through the introduction of the Australian Curriculum Technologies. In 2017, the State Government of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Learning Activities, Cooperative Learning
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Livy, Sharyn; Bobis, Janette; Downton, Ann; Hughes, Sally; McCormick, Melody; Russo, James; Sullivan, Peter – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2019
In this article, the authors emphasise the importance of purposeful mathematical discussion and using sequences of connected, cumulative, and challenging tasks in advancing students' spatial reasoning in the early years of schooling.
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Fowler, Samuel; O'Keeffe, Lisa; Cutting, Chelsea; Leonard, Simon – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2019
Understanding spatial reasoning is important to success in mathematics. This article shows how the proficiency strands in the "Australian Curriculum: Mathematics" provide the tools needed for effective teaching and learning of spatial thinking.
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
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Woolcott, Geoff – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2018
Southern Cross University (SCU) educators and local teachers have developed a five-lesson instructional sequence built around fluke identification as a way of resolving the question: How fast do humpback whales travel up the east coast of Australia?
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Sequential Approach
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Logan, Tracy; Lowrie, Tom – Research in Mathematics Education, 2017
Most large-scale summative assessments present results in terms of cumulative scores. Although such descriptions can provide insights into general trends over time, they do not provide detail of how students solved the tasks. Less restrictive access to raw data from these summative assessments has occurred in recent years, resulting in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Spatial Ability, Mathematics Skills
Marshman, Margaret; Woolcott, Geoff; Dole, Shelley – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2017
The use of multiuser virtual environments for educational purposes is in its infancy but offers potential for exploration of spatial contexts that could not otherwise be experienced. We report on pre-service teachers' experiences in designing learning activities as a result of immersion in the CAVE2™, a 320-degree, cylindrical 3D virtual…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving, Computer Simulation
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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King, Alessandra – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2015
Spatial reasoning--the ability to visualise and play with shapes in one's mind--is essential in many fields, and crucial in any Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics [STEM] discipline. It is, for example, the ability that the engineer needs to build bridges; the chemist to see the three-dimensional structure of a molecule; the architect to…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Coding, STEM Education, Thinking Skills
Ho, Siew Yin; Logan, Tracy – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
This paper describes Singapore and Australian Grade 6 students' (n=1,187) performance on a symmetry task in a recently developed Mathematics Processing Instrument (MPI). The MPI comprised tasks sourced from Australia and Singapore's national assessments, NAPLAN and PSLE. Only half of the cohort solved the item successfully. It is possible that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Jenkins, Kate – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2010
Most teachers feel confident espousing the benefits of using picture books in English lessons, talking about the importance of using the illustrations to enhance the text, engaging students and fostering a love and appreciation of literature. How many teachers passionately advocate the use of these same picture books in mathematics lessons? This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Picture Books, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction
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Roberts, Tim – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2007
It is not often that one can introduce primary school students to a problem at the forefront of mathematics research, and have any expectation of understanding; but with magic squares, one can do exactly that. Magic squares are an ideal tool for the effective illustration of many mathematical concepts. This paper assumes little prior knowledge on…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Primary Education, Mathematics Education, Arithmetic
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Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Nicol, Cynthia, Ed.; Oesterie, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
The theme of the 38th meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 38) and the 36th meeting of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA 36) was "Mathematics Education at the Edge." Academically, the theme provides opportunities to highlight and examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Educational Psychology, Educational Research
McLeay, Heather – Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, 2006
The author describes a pilot study to investigate the extent to which learners use imagery in a variety of spatial problems. In order to discover how to encourage pupils to use imagery and thus to become better problem solvers, this study set out firstly to explore how pupils are able to use imagery in a variety of tasks. The tasks involved mental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Imagery, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving
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