Making squares: children's responses to a tangram task
Nic Mhuirí, SiúnORCID: 0000-0001-5008-5573 and Kelly, Denis
(2021)
Making squares: children's responses to a tangram task.
In: Eighth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI 8), 15-16 Oct 2021, Dublin, Ireland (Online).
This paper reports on children’s responses to a tangram task. The task was designed, based
on the draft specification of the primary mathematics curriculum, to facilitate children’s
exploration of shape properties and their engagement in mental and physical transformations
of tangram pieces. The task was enacted with three cohorts of children from first and second
class. Analysis shows some children’s concept images of squares to be limited and their
thinking dominated by prototypical geometric images. This research is pertinent in the
context of the proposed changes to the Shape and Space strand of the primary curriculum.
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Kingston, Mary and Grimes, Paul, (eds.)
Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI 8).
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Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI).