Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Bodnar, Jessica, Thesis advisor (ths): Bruce, Catherine D, Degree committee member (dgc): Hawes, Zachary, Degree committee member (dgc): Mooney, Claire, Degree committee member (dgc): Handlarski, Denise, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Spatial reasoning and spatial structures are relatively new areas of research in mathematics education. In this study of children exploring spatial conceptions of grid structures, twenty-one children (ages 4-9) were given a series of tasks involving square grids during virtual interviews. As a result of an ideal-type analysis of the qualitative data, a typology of conceptions of grids… more Full Text: YOUNG CHILDREN’S SPATIAL CONCEPTIONS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRID STRUCTURES A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …
