Panorkou, N;
Pratt, D;
(2016)
Using Google SketchUp to Develop Students' Experiences of Dimension in Geometry.
Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education
, 2
(3)
pp. 199-227.
10.1007/s40751-016-0021-9.
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Abstract
Dimension is a powerful mathematical construct that is rarely taught or researched explicitly. The study reported on here explored how the software Google SketchUp can facilitate students’ experiences of dimension. Clinical interviews based on carefully designed tasks were conducted with 10-year-old students. This article offers evidence from the data on how the task setting, including SketchUp’s dimensional tools identified in the software, prompted the construction of ideas about dimension. More specifically, children expressed intuitive ideas about an object/space’s freedom to move within a space/object of higher dimension and its capacity to house other objects/spaces of lower dimension.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Using Google SketchUp to Develop Students' Experiences of Dimension in Geometry |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s40751-016-0021-9 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1007/s40751-016-0021-9 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | The final publication is available at Springer via http://doi.org/10.1007/s40751-016-0021-9. |
| Keywords: | Dimension, Geometry, Situated abstractions, Google SketchUp |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1514420 |
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