Brent Davis, Spatial Reasoning Study Group

Spatial Reasoning in the Early Years (eBook, ePUB)

Principles, Assertions, and Speculations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By exploring both primary and emergent dimensions, Spatial Reasoning in the Early Years helps define the concept of spatial reasoning and provides compelling evidence of the need for a clear focus within early education specifically.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317648109
• Artikelnr.: 42818950

Autorenporträt

Brent Davis is Professor and Distinguished Research Chair of the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The Spatial Reasoning Study Group is a transdisciplinary team of researchers from across North America with its hub at the University of Calgary. Its members work in and across mathematics education, mathematics, psychology, curriculum studies, and cognitive science. The group currently includes Catherine D. Bruce, Beverly Caswell, Lissa D'Amour, Brent Davis, Michelle Drefs, Krista Francis, David Hallowell, Zachary Hawes, Donna Kotsopoulos, Lynn McGarvey, Joan Moss, Yukari Okamoto, Paulino Preciado, Nathalie Sinclair, Diane Tepylo, Jennifer S. Thom, and Walter Whiteley.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1. What is spatial reasoning and why should we care?
1. What is spatial reasoning?
2. The development of spatial reasoning in young children
3. Developing spatial thinking: implications for early mathematics
education
Section 2. If spatial reasoning is so important, why has it taken so long
to be noticed?
4. A history and analysis of current curriculum
5. Spatial knowing, doing, and being
Section 3. What are the curricular and pedagogical implications of spatial
reasoning?
6. Spatializing the curriculum
7. Motion and markings
8. Interactions between three dimensions and two dimensions
Section 4: And so? What kind of research agenda might we need to pursue?
9. Spatializing school mathematics
References
Index