Volume 47, Issue 3 | ZDM – Mathematics Education

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Volume 47, Issue 3

June 2015

Geometry in the primary school

Issue Editors:

Nathalie Sinclair,
Catherine D. Bruce

15 articles in this issue

New opportunities in geometry education at the primary school
Nathalie Sinclair
Catherine D. Bruce
Survey Paper 01 May 2015 Pages: 319 - 329
The role of 2D and 3D mental rotation in mathematics for young children: what is it? Why does it matter? And what can we do about it?
Catherine D. Bruce
Zachary Hawes
Original Article 10 October 2014 Pages: 331 - 343
Kindergartners’ performance in two types of imaginary perspective-taking
Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen
Iliada Elia
Alexander Robitzsch
Original Article Open access 17 February 2015 Pages: 345 - 362
First-graders’ spatial-mathematical reasoning about plane and solid shapes and their representations
David A. Hallowell
Yukari Okamoto
Jonna R. La Joy
Original Article 29 January 2015 Pages: 363 - 375
Adapting Japanese Lesson Study to enhance the teaching and learning of geometry and spatial reasoning in early years classrooms: a case study
Joan Moss
Zachary Hawes
Beverly Caswell
Original Article 25 February 2015 Pages: 377 - 390
Geometry in early years: sowing seeds for a mathematical definition of squares and rectangles
Maria G. Bartolini Bussi
Anna Baccaglini-Frank
Original Article 09 October 2014 Pages: 391 - 405
Two aspects of young children’s thinking about different types of dynamic triangles: prototypicality and inclusion
Harpreet Kaur
Original Article 27 December 2014 Pages: 407 - 420
Young children reasoning about symmetry in a dynamic geometry environment
Oi-Lam Ng
Nathalie Sinclair
Original Article 22 January 2015 Pages: 421 - 434
Articulation of spatial and geometrical knowledge in problem solving with technology at primary school
Sophie Soury-Lavergne
Michela Maschietto
Original Article 22 May 2015 Pages: 435 - 449
Children’s understanding of large-scale mapping tasks: an analysis of talk, drawings, and gesture
Donna Kotsopoulos
Michelle Cordy
Melanie Langemeyer
Original Article 22 January 2015 Pages: 451 - 463
The act and artifact of drawing(s): observing geometric thinking with, in, and through children’s drawings
Jennifer S. Thom
Lynn M. McGarvey
Original Article 27 May 2015 Pages: 465 - 481
Developing a network of and for geometric reasoning
Ami Mamolo
Robyn Ruttenberg-Rozen
Walter Whiteley
Original Article 27 December 2014 Pages: 483 - 496
Early-years teachers’ concept images and concept definitions: triangles, circles, and cylinders
Pessia Tsamir
Dina Tirosh
Michal Tabach
Original Article 22 October 2014 Pages: 497 - 509
Looking within and beyond the geometry curriculum: connecting spatial reasoning to mathematics learning
Joanne Mulligan
Commentary Paper 28 May 2015 Pages: 511 - 517
Geometry in the early years: a commentary
Jaguthsing Dindyal
Commentary Paper 12 June 2015 Pages: 519 - 529