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The Role of 2D and 3D Mental Rotation in Mathematics for Young Children: What Is It? Why Does It Matter? And What Can We Do about It?
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Bruce, Catherine D.; Hawes, Zachary – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
The ability to mentally rotate objects in space has been singled out by cognitive scientists as a central metric of spatial reasoning (see Jansen, Schmelter, Quaiser-Pohl, Neuburger, & Heil, 2013; Shepard & Metzler, 1971 for example). However, this is a particularly undeveloped area of current mathematics curricula, especially in North…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Enhancing Children's Spatial and Numerical Skills through a Dynamic Spatial Approach to Early Geometry Instruction: Effects of a 32-Week Intervention
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Hawes, Zachary; Moss, Joan; Caswell, Beverly; Naqvi, Sarah; MacKinnon, Sharla – Cognition and Instruction, 2017
This study describes the implementation and effects of a 32-week teacher-led spatial reasoning intervention in K-2 classrooms. The intervention targeted spatial visualization skills as an integrated feature of regular mathematics instruction. Compared to an active control group, children in the spatial intervention demonstrated gains in spatial…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Geometry
Calculations and Expectations: How Engineering Students Describe Three-Dimensional Forces
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Miller-Young, Janice E. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
The premise of student-centered teaching is to respond to the ways in which students engage with the context and content of their learning, and therefore the purpose of this study was to find out how students visualize three-dimensional statics problems from two-dimensional diagrams early in a first-year engineering course. Think-alouds were…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Students, Protocol Analysis, Visualization
Mathematics Education at the Edge. Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME) (38th) and the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA) (36th, Vancouver, Canada, July 15-20, 2014)
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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
Children's Recognition of Rural Features from Anaglyphic Representations of Vertical Aerial Photographs.
Carswell, Ronald J. B.; And Others – 1982
Three-dimensional (3-D) aerial photographs viewed with cardboard filter glasses (anaglyphs) aid elementary and junior high school students in recognizing physical features, offer a realistic vertical perspective, and have motivational values. A review of research on cognition, perception, and the use of anaglyphs reveals that pictures are an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Geographic Concepts
Effect of Playing a Video Game on Adults' and Adolescents' Spatial Visualization.
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Pepin, Michel; Dorval, Michel – 1986
This paper presents the results of two studies which were performed to assess the effects of the practice of an interactive video game on spatial visualization test scores. The first study used 70 Laval University undergraduate students as subjects, while subjects for the second study were 101 seventh grade students from the area of Quebec City.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Analysis of Covariance, Computer Simulation, Foreign Countries