Children’s understanding of large-scale mapping tasks: an analysis of talk, drawings, and gesture

Kotsopoulos, Donna; Cordy, Michelle; Langemeyer, Melanie

doi:10.1007/s11858-014-0661-4

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“…Qualitative study, with children from grades 1 and 2, using three vignettes about students' drawings Kotsopoulos, Cordy, and Langemeyer (2015) Canada…”

Section: -Year Oldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geometry in the early years: a commentary

Dindyal

2015

ZDM Mathematics Education

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“…Qualitative study, with children from grades 1 and 2, using three vignettes about students' drawings Kotsopoulos, Cordy, and Langemeyer (2015) Canada…”

Section: -Year Oldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geometry in the early years: a commentary

Dindyal

2015

ZDM Mathematics Education

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“…Although pupils do not actually use maps before and have minimal training, they usually know how to use them. However, pupils with less developed spatial abilities were found to create "poor" map drawings, make fewer movements, and have poorer vocabulary when exposed to large-scale maps [35]. Giant maps can represent much different spatial information associated with symbols on the map surface [36].…”

Section: Geography and Spatial Skills In Kindergartenmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2021

IJE

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The construction of space in children develops gradually, as they grow up and is related both to their environment and to their spatial and/or geographical experiences. According to previous studies, spatial thinking is malleable, and can be developed with the use of appropriate teaching interventions and educational material. Geospatial thinking and reading map skills required to decode map symbols are a relatively new and very interesting topic in kindergarten's education. Significance of this study is the creation of two large-scale giant maps, laminated, and appropriate to accompany teaching material that can be used in a teaching intervention based on the Greek kindergarten curriculum. The first map (scale of 1:1000) is a map of the city of Mytilene, and the second one (scale of 1:20000) is of the island of Lesvos; both have dimensions 3X4 meters. The purpose of this study is to present the creation of spatial teaching material, so that map skills in Kindergarten education can be cultivated and developed in order to provide kindergarten teachers with large scale-giant maps and encourage them to introduce them to their teaching, as large scale-giant maps are really powerful educational tools for the development of their pupils' spatial skills.

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“…They even have the potential for much more, and should not be neglected (Broza & Kolikant, 2015 (Kotsopoulos, Cordy, & Langemeyer, 2015).…”

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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF DoCtor WoRM’S MODULE IN IMPROVING MULTIPLICATION SKILLS AMONG YEAR FOUR LOW ACHIEVERS

May¹,

Ahmad²

2019

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The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of DoCtor WoRM’s Module in improving multiplication skills among Year Four low achievers in National-Type Chinese Primary School (SJKC). DoCtor WoRM’s Module had been designed based on Constructivist Theory, mastery learning, and game-based learning. The module was developed based on Sidek’s Module Development Model. Quantitative approaches with quasi-experimental design were used for this study. A number of 60 Year Four low achievers from Manjung District were selected using random sampling. The sample was divided into the treatment and control groups. The former went through a teaching and learning process using DoCtor WoRM’s Module, while the latter learnt through traditional teaching. After the pre-test, three months of intervention was carried out to both groups of sample, followed by a post-test. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Dependent t-test showed that there was a significant increase in the achievement of treatment group from pre-test (M = 59.47, SD = 27.242) to post-test (M = 91.53, SD = 12.566), t(29) = 6.254, p < .001. The independent t-test had shown that the achievement of multiplication skills in post-test of treatment group (M = 91.53, SD = 12.566) is higher than the post-test of control group (M = 79.17, SD = 22.588), t(58) = 2.621, p < .012. As a conclusion, DoCtor WoRM’s Module has improved the multiplication skills among Year Four low achievers in SJKC. This study implicates that DoCtor WoRM’s Module should be applied to the low achievers in Malaysia in order to improve their Mathematics achievement particularly in multiplication skills.

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Children’s understanding of large-scale mapping tasks: an analysis of talk, drawings, and gesture

Cited by 7 publications

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Geometry in the early years: a commentary

Geometry in the early years: a commentary

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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF DoCtor WoRM’S MODULE IN IMPROVING MULTIPLICATION SKILLS AMONG YEAR FOUR LOW ACHIEVERS

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