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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
Mariotti, Maria Alessandra; Laborde, Colette; Falcade, Rossana – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
Assuming that dynamic features of Dynamic Geometry Software may provide a basic representation of both variation and functional dependency, and taking Vygotskian perspective of semiotic mediation, a teaching experiment has been designed with the aim of introducing pupils to the idea of function. First data coming from the observations in Italian…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Experiments