Studien zur theoretischen und empirischen Forschung in der Mathematikdidaktik The Impact of Scale on Childrens Spatial Thought - Cathleen Heil Kartoniert (TB)

In this book Cathleen Heil addresses the question of how to conceptually understand children's spatial thought in the context of geometry education. She proposes that in order to help children develop their abilities to successfully grasp and manipulate the spatial relations they experience in their everyday lives spatial thought should not only be addressed in written or tabletop settings at school. Instead geometry education should also focus on settings involving real space such as during reasoning with maps. In a first part of this book she theoretically addresses the construct of spa tial thought at different scales of space from a cognitive psychological point of view and shows that maps can be rich sources for spatial thinking. In a second part she proposes how to measure children's spatial thought in a paper-and-pencil setting and map-based setting in real space. In a third empirical part she examines the relations between children's spatialthought in those two settings both at a manifest and latent level.