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Adrian-Mario Gellel; Josephine Deguara; Jennifer Formosa – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
This paper reports on an investigation into the potential effects of the Symbol Literacy Approach (SLA) on the metaphorical reasoning of 25 five-year-old children attending a Maltese Catholic School. This was implemented via six pedagogical activities comprising the 'St. Michael Project', which sought to prompt the children's symbolic engagement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Catholic Schools
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Joutsenlahti, Jorma; Kulju, Pirjo – Education Sciences, 2017
The purpose of this study is to present a multimodal languaging model for mathematics education. The model consists of mathematical symbolic language, a pictorial language, and a natural language. By applying this model, the objective was to study how 4th grade pupils (N = 21) understand the concept of division. The data was collected over six…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Arithmetic, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students