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Making space for geometry in primary mathematics

Making space for geometry in primary mathematics
Making space for geometry in primary mathematics
This chapter examines the structure and recommendations of the UK National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) with respect to the teaching of geometry at primary school. It looks at ways in which the NNS recommendations might be best taken forward and whether there are important aspects of geometry that the Strategy has omitted or to which it has paid too little attention. It suggests that until spatial and visual thinking is given greater status within the mental and oral segments of primary mathematics lessons, and until more curriculum space at primary level is devoted to geometry, children may well continue to have insufficient opportunity to develop fundamental visualisation and spatial reasoning skills that are so important in an increasingly visual world.
teaching, learning, primary school, elementary school, curriculum, pedagogy, geometry, geometric, geometrical, mathematics, mathematical, numeracy, spatial, visualisation, visualization
0335213758
3-15
Open University
Jones, Keith
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Mooney, Claire
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Jones, Keith
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Mooney, Claire
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Jones, Keith and Mooney, Claire (2003) Making space for geometry in primary mathematics. In, Enhancing primary mathematics teaching. Maidenhead, GB. Open University, pp. 3-15.

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This chapter examines the structure and recommendations of the UK National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) with respect to the teaching of geometry at primary school. It looks at ways in which the NNS recommendations might be best taken forward and whether there are important aspects of geometry that the Strategy has omitted or to which it has paid too little attention. It suggests that until spatial and visual thinking is given greater status within the mental and oral segments of primary mathematics lessons, and until more curriculum space at primary level is devoted to geometry, children may well continue to have insufficient opportunity to develop fundamental visualisation and spatial reasoning skills that are so important in an increasingly visual world.

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Published date: 2003
Additional Information: This author's proof has the same pagination as the published article.
Keywords: teaching, learning, primary school, elementary school, curriculum, pedagogy, geometry, geometric, geometrical, mathematics, mathematical, numeracy, spatial, visualisation, visualization
Organisations: Mathematics, Science & Health Education

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Local EPrints ID: 11250
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/11250
ISBN: 0335213758
PURE UUID: 96b30b03-4eee-494e-8c58-1989c1491146
ORCID for Keith Jones: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3677-8802

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Date deposited: 09 Nov 2004
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:03

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Author: Keith Jones ORCID iD
Author: Claire Mooney

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