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http://dx.doi.org/10.7468/mathedu.2014.53.2.275

A study of representing activities of preservice secondary mathematics teachers in 3D geometric thinking and spatial reasoning  

Lee, Yu Bin (Graduate school of Yeungnam University)
Cho, Cheong Soo (Yeungnam University)
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The Mathematical Education / v.53, no.2, 2014 , pp. 275-290 More about this Journal
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This study investigated the types of the 3D geometric thinking and spatial reasoning through the observation of the 2D representing activities for representing the 3D geometrical objects with preservice secondary mathematics teachers. For this purpose, the 43 sophomoric students in college of education were divided into 10 groups and observed their group task performance on the basis of the representation they used. Observed processes were all recorded and the participants were interviewed based on the task. As a result, the role of physical object that becoming the object of geometric thinking and spatial reasoning, and diverse strategies and phenomena of the process that representing the 3D geometric figures in 2D were discovered. Furthermore, these processes of representing were assumed to be influenced by experience and study practice of students, and various forms of representing process were also discovered in the process of small group activities.
Keywords
geometric thinking; spatial reasoning; representation;
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