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Tejaswini Dalvi; Kristen Wendell – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
Insights on students' own authentic design practices--nascent design practices without much adult guidance--are crucial to informing responsive facilitation of engineering design tasks. This study unpacks how elementary students interpret teacher given information about a design task, and interact with each other and given resources, to traverse a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Navigation, Engineering, Design
Albarracín, Lluís; Hernàndez-Sabaté, Aura; Gorgorió, Núria – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
In this article, we present an educational proposal designed to work on spatial geometry and three-dimensional thinking with students in the last years of Primary Education. The proposal is comprised of several activities that combine the use of a classroom videogame and working with manipulative materials to create a representation of the…
Descriptors: Video Games, Design, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts
Kaiwen Man; Joni M. Lakin – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2024
Eye-tracking procedures generate copious process data that could be valuable in establishing the response processes component of modern validity theory. However, there is a lack of tools for assessing and visualizing response processes using process data such as eye-tracking fixation sequences, especially those suitable for young children. This…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Spatial Ability, Task Analysis, Network Analysis
Slki Narae Lim – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Computational thinking (CT) is a critical problem-solving skill that can help students be successful in school and the 21st-century workplace (Wing, 2006). This project builds on past research showing that educational robotics can be a useful and cost-effective means to teach CT to primary school students. Past research has not yet resolved…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Putrawangsa, Susilahuddin; Patahuddin, Sitti – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
This study enquires into the embodied processes of children in solving multiplication tasks, considering how such processes can expand access to spatial reasoning skills and simultaneously develop students' understanding of multiplication. The analysis focused on four Year 2 students as they completed two embodied tasks. The aim was to understand…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Spatial Ability, Teaching Methods, Multiplication
Rivella, Carlotta; Cornoldi, Cesare; Caviola, Sara; Giofrè, David – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
It has been suggested that not only domain-specific factors but also working memory (WM) may play a crucial role in mathematical learning included Geometry, but the issue has not been deeply explored. In the present study, we examined the role of domain-specific factors and of verbal versus visuospatial WM on geometric learning of a new…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Short Term Memory, Verbal Ability, Spatial Ability
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
Fastame, Maria Chiara; Manca, Cristina – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
This investigation examines the impact of two psychoeducational programs (i.e., computer-assisted versus pencil-and-paper) for the empowerment of visuospatial skills of 7-year-old pupils. At pretest, posttest and at a three-month follow-up, 58 children attending the second grade of Italian primary school completed a battery of tests assessing…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Computer Assisted Instruction, Psychoeducational Methods, Elementary School Students
Putrawangsa, Susilahudin; Febrian; Hasanah, Uswatun – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2021
The main goal of the current study is to develop intervention of learning to promote students' understanding of percentage. The design of the interventions employed the spatial representation of percentage in the form of a bar model and was designed based on the pedagogical concepts of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME). The participants were…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Intervention
Harris, Danielle; Logan, Tracy; Lowrie, Tom – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2021
The relationship between mathematics and spatial reasoning is well established and extensively researched. Certain mathematics content could be deemed explicitly spatial, for example within geometry. However, the link to spatial reasoning extends into other areas of mathematics, such as representations of the number line and reading and…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Problem Solving, Mathematics Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Wang, Li; Zeng, Jieying; Ran, Xiaomeng; Cui, Zhanling; Zhou, Xinlin – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
Mathematical problems can be divided into two types, namely, process-open and process-constrained problems. Solving these two types of problems may require different cognitive mechanisms. However, there has been only one study that investigated the differences of the cognitive abilities in process-open and process-constrained problem solving, and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Grade 5
Ribeiro, Sara; Palhares, Pedro – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
In this article we examine 4th and 5th grade Portuguese students' performance on problems of structuring 2D rectangular arrays of squares, which was analyzed and categorized into the five levels of sophistication described by Battista, Clements, Arnoff, Battista, and Borrow (1998). In general, the results suggest that students in the higher-grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Geometric Concepts, Measurement
Fastame, Maria Chiara – School Psychology International, 2021
The relationships between visuo-spatial abilities and geometry performances in school-aged children were examined. A battery of tests assessing non-verbal reasoning, visuo-spatial mental imagery, and academic achievement in geometry (i.e., geometric knowledge and geometric problem-solving competencies) was presented to 162 8-9.5-year-old pupils…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Geometry, Correlation, Mathematics Achievement
Mix, Kelly S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Research has demonstrated strong relations between spatial skill and mathematics across ages and in both typical and atypical populations, suggesting that a significant proportion of variance in mathematics performance can be explained by variance in spatial skill. Why do these relations exist and how do they develop? Studies of dimensionality in…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mathematics Skills, Correlation, Mathematics Instruction
Putri, Hafiziani Eka; Rahayu, Puji; Muqodas, Idat; Wahyudy, Mukhamad Ady – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2020
The spatial sense ability of elementary school students is still low. Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) approach is considered able to improve students' spatial sense abilities. This research aims to find out the increase of spatial sense of elementary school students who learned with CPA approach and conventional learning in terms of overall…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Teaching Methods