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ERIC Number: ED630370
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 10
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K-2 Student's Composing of Lego Structures
Kocabas, Sezai; Zhu, Yi; Liang, Yiheng; Bofferding, Laura
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (44th, Nashville, TN, Nov 17-20, 2022)
Block building activities help develop students' spatial reasoning, but few studies focus on the development of block building skills beyond preschool. We worked with four kindergarten, four first grade, and four second grade students to learn more about their Lego block building. We compared students' accuracy, building strategies, and spatial language as they used manuals versus pictures of final Lego structures (presented in color versus grayscale) to build two Lego structures. On the first structure, students using color manuals or pictures had an easier time choosing correct bricks but had difficulty correctly placing them; students using grayscale manuals or pictures had difficulty picking the correct bricks but placed them more accurately. By the second design, students did better with the manuals, regardless of color. Students need more support to use specific spatial language and building with depth versus height. [For the complete proceedings, see ED630210.]
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 2; Primary Education; Kindergarten; Grade 1
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Language: English
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