Grade 3/4 students' misconceptions of cubes: a landscape of sources of errors

Ann Patricia Downton, Sharyn Livy, Simone Reinhold, Susanne Woller

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    Abstract

    Most of the research relating to children’s geometric reasoning has been interested in geometrical concept knowledge of two-dimensional shapes, whereas few studies have investigated children’s knowledge and visualization of three-dimensional objects, in detail. In previously presented research, we introduced a construction task to investigate young children’s knowledge of geometrical solids. First results, namely children’s construction strategies and products in this task, were interpreted according to the Van Hiele framework and indicated a wide variety in Grade 3 students’ geometrical concept knowledge on solids (Reinhold & Wöller, 2016). Moreover, we identified errors and misconceptions on cubes that provoked us to widen our perspective and to search for more general aspects of cognitive development that we considered could influence (mis)conceptions on geometrical objects.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages227
    Number of pages1
    Publication statusPublished - 2018
    EventAnnual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education 2018 - Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    Duration: 3 Jul 20188 Jul 2018
    Conference number: 42nd
    http://www.pme42.se/

    Conference

    ConferenceAnnual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education 2018
    Abbreviated titlePME 2018
    Country/TerritorySweden
    CityUmeå
    Period3/07/188/07/18
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    Keywords

    • Primary school children
    • Mathematics education
    • Geometry

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