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Peer reviewedHill, Douglas M.; Redden, Michael G. – School Science and Mathematics, 1984
Seventy fifth-grade students in Australia were observed as each solved a jigsaw puzzle. Boys obtained higher scores on a measure of cognitive style and took less time to complete the jigsaw task; the two measures were significantly correlated. Uses of tangrams are also discussed. (MNS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
