Research on the teaching and learning of geometry
Research on the teaching and learning of geometry
The chapter provides a comprehensive review of recent research in geometry education, covering geometric and spatial thinking, geometric measurement, and visualization related to geometry, as well as encompassing theoretical developments and research into teaching and teacher development. Studies examining the uses of forms of digital technology are addressed in every section. The content of the chapter reflects the main emphases of research in geometry education as presented at PME conferences over the period 2005–2015. The synthesis is presented in the form of the following sections: spatial reasoning, geometric visualization, geometric measurement, geometric reasoning and proving, students’ knowledge, teachers’ knowledge and development, and teaching geometry and the design and use of geometric tasks. While some topics of research are under-represented (including the topics of congruency and similarity, transformation geometry, analytic/ coordinate geometry, vector geometry), research in geometry education is embracing the use of more recent discursive, embodied and eco-cultural perspectives, and is also employing new methods such as eye-tracking. As research develops further, the affordance of digital technologies is enriching approaches to geometric and spatial teaching and learning by providing new ways of apprehension and representation, new manipulation and processes, wider and deeper conceptual understanding and linking of different meanings and treatments.
education, research, teaching, learning, geometry, spatial reasoning, visualization, measurement, reasoning, proving, teachers, tasks, PME, IGPME
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Jones, Keith
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Tzekaki, Marianna
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6 May 2016
Jones, Keith
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Tzekaki, Marianna
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Jones, Keith and Tzekaki, Marianna
(2016)
Research on the teaching and learning of geometry.
In,
Gutiérrez, Ángel, Leder, Gilah and Boero, Paulo
(eds.)
The Second Handbook of Research on the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
Rotterdam, NL.
Sense, .
(doi:10.1007/978-94-6300-561-6_4).
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The chapter provides a comprehensive review of recent research in geometry education, covering geometric and spatial thinking, geometric measurement, and visualization related to geometry, as well as encompassing theoretical developments and research into teaching and teacher development. Studies examining the uses of forms of digital technology are addressed in every section. The content of the chapter reflects the main emphases of research in geometry education as presented at PME conferences over the period 2005–2015. The synthesis is presented in the form of the following sections: spatial reasoning, geometric visualization, geometric measurement, geometric reasoning and proving, students’ knowledge, teachers’ knowledge and development, and teaching geometry and the design and use of geometric tasks. While some topics of research are under-represented (including the topics of congruency and similarity, transformation geometry, analytic/ coordinate geometry, vector geometry), research in geometry education is embracing the use of more recent discursive, embodied and eco-cultural perspectives, and is also employing new methods such as eye-tracking. As research develops further, the affordance of digital technologies is enriching approaches to geometric and spatial teaching and learning by providing new ways of apprehension and representation, new manipulation and processes, wider and deeper conceptual understanding and linking of different meanings and treatments.
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Published date: 6 May 2016
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education, research, teaching, learning, geometry, spatial reasoning, visualization, measurement, reasoning, proving, teachers, tasks, PME, IGPME
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Mathematics, Science & Health Education
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Marianna Tzekaki
Editor:
Ángel Gutiérrez
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Gilah Leder
Editor:
Paulo Boero
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