Exploring kindergarten children's perception of spatial relations

• Autor(a) principal: Balinha, Filipa
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Mamede, Ema
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/72064
• topic: Matemática no pré-escolar; Relações espaciais; Geometria; Kindergarten; Mathematics; Spatial relations; Geometry; Educação pré-escolar; Matemática; Relações espaciais; Geometria; Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Educação; Educação de qualidade

This paper focuses on young children’s perception of spatial relations. It analyses spatial relations of kindergarten children (3-5-years-old, N=15), addressing two questions: How do children perform when solving perception of spatial relationships problems? What strategies do children use when solving these problems? Qualitative methods were used to describe children’s reactions when solving problems of: recognizing position from 2D to 3D, recognizing parts of the whole, recognizing the position of the objects. Results suggests that recognizing position from 2D to 3D seems to be the most difficult problems. Even 3-years-old used successful strategies in solving the perception of spatial relations problems. Thus these problems can be explored in kindergarten, as a way to stimulate visualization skills.