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Development and Early Use of a Novel Spatial Relations Task in Early Childhood

• In Event: Tasks and Curriculum

Description

Capturing the development of spatial reasoning is an important goal for researchers in early childhood mathematics, but few existing measures attend to the mathematics that children display as they draw on their intuition to solve problems. This brief report describes the development of a novel measure of spatial reasoning. We describe design principles, the piloting process, and early findings from its use with 67 preschool children aged 37-56 months.

Authors

• Nicholas Charles Johnson, San Diego State University

• Carlos Alejandro de Alba, San Diego State University & University of California, San Diego