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Mastrogiuseppe, Marilina; Gianni, Eugenia; Lee, Sang Ah – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Unlike children's early ability to navigate by continuous boundaries, their ability to extract geometric information from an array of objects emerges gradually over childhood. To investigate children's developing representation of object arrays for navigation and its relation to their mental representation of the global spatial layout,…
Descriptors: Children, Error Patterns, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts
Lelinge, Balli; Svensson, Christina – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
Few research studies have been conducted in a primary school in early mathematical education about the teaching of geometry. This research aims to contribute with knowledge of how teachers' awareness and understanding of necessary conditions to enhance students' abilities to discern two- and three-dimensional shapes develop. In this research,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Geometric Concepts, Concept Formation, Spatial Ability
Boaler, Jo – American Educator, 2019
Babies and infants love mathematics. Give babies a set of blocks, and they will build and order them, fascinated by the ways the edges line up. Children will look up at the sky and be delighted by the V formations in which birds fly. Count a set of objects with a young child and then move the objects and count them again, and they will be…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Numbers, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts
Szubielska, Magdalena; Niestorowicz, Ewa; Marek, Boguslaw – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2019
Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine whether individuals with congenital blindness make more recognizable drawings of known objects that are furniture sized (table, man, tree) rather than hand sized (egg, coconut, banana; Hypothesis 1). We also investigated whether knowledge that the tactile drawings had been produced by people who…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Congenital Impairments, Blindness, Freehand Drawing
Zosh, Jennifer M.; Verdine, Brian N.; Filipowicz, Andrew; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Newcombe, Nora S. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2015
As the traditional toys of the past are quickly being replaced with electronically "enhanced" toys, it is important to understand how these changes impact parent--child interactions, especially in light of the evidence that the richness and variety of these interactions have long-term effects on diverse areas of cognition (Hart &…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Play, Toys, Comparative Analysis
Hawes, Zachary; LeFevre, Jo-Anne; Xu, Chang; Bruce, Catherine D. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2015
There is an emerging consensus that spatial thinking is fundamental to later success in math and science. The goals of this study were to design and evaluate a novel test of three-dimensional (3D) mental rotation for 4- to 8-year-old children (N?=?165) that uses tangible 3D objects. Results revealed that the measure was both valid and reliable and…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Children
Ambrose, Rebecca; Kenehan, Garrett – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2009
To better understand the development of children's thinking in three-dimensional geometry, we conducted a teaching experiment with 8- and 9-year olds in which children built and described polyhedra during several lessons. Analysis of pre-/post-assessments showed that children advanced in their geometric reasoning and began to identify, enumerate,…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Geometry, Geometric Concepts
Recker, Kara M.; Plumert, Jodie M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2008
We conducted three experiments to investigate how opportunities to view objects together in time influence memory for location. Children and adults learned the locations of 20 objects marked by dots on the floor of an open, square box. During learning, participants viewed the objects either simultaneously or in isolation. At test, participants…
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Children, Adults
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Mascia, Maria Lidia, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2019), held during November 7-9, 2019, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and co-organised by University Degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Engineering Education, Critical Thinking
Cowan, Nelson; Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe; Kilb, Angela; Saults, J. Scott – Developmental Psychology, 2006
We asked whether the ability to keep in working memory the binding between a visual object and its spatial location changes with development across the life span more than memory for item information. Paired arrays of colored squares were identical or differed in the color of one square, and in the latter case, the changed color was unique on…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Memory, Older Adults, Children
Vallortigara, Giorgio; Feruglio, Marco; Sovrano, Valeria Anna – Developmental Science, 2005
It has been found that disoriented children could use geometric information in combination with landmark information to reorient themselves in large but not in small experimental spaces. We tested domestic chicks in the same task and found that they were able to conjoin geometric and nongeometric (landmark) information to reorient themselves in…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Children, Cognitive Science, Animals

Spencer, Ian; Krizel, Peter – Child Development, 1994
Children, ages 9 to 13 years, made judgments of proportion with a variety of graphical elements in 2 experiments. A characteristic pattern of over- and underestimation was observed; this pattern was also present, but previously unnoticed, in judgments made by adults. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Sovrano, Valeria Anna; Bisazza, Angelo; Vallortigara, Giorgio – Cognition, 2005
Disoriented children could use geometric information in combination with landmark information to reorient themselves in large but not in small experimental spaces. We tested fish in the same task and found that they were able to conjoin geometric and non-geometric (landmark) information to reorient themselves in both the large and the small space…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Animals, Spatial Ability, Personal Space
Lange-Kuttner, C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
Pictorial space can be conceptualized as aggregate space (where figures compete for limited available space) or as axial space (where space is infinite and exists independently of figures). That these two kinds of space concepts follow a developmental sequence was tested by investigating size regulation mechanisms in 7- to 12-year-old children's…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Geometric Concepts, Children, Spatial Ability