Perceiving and describing structures of kindergarten children
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Sprenger, P., Ott, B., & Uribe, Á. (2025). Perceiving and describing structures of kindergarten children. In M. Bosch, S. Careira, G. Bolondi, M. Gaidoschik, & C. Spagnolo (Eds.), Proceedings of the fourteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME14), Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, February 3-8, 2025 (TWG13_ Earlly Years Mathematics, pp. 2128-2135). Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and ERME. https://hal.science/CERME14/hal-05236969v1
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Mathematik
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Education, general (including training, pedagogy, didactics)
Abstract
Successful structuring processes are an important basis for arithmetical learning. This includes describing (individually) perceived structures of a set. Therefore, a learning situation with two groups of children in the last year of kindergarten (age 5) in Switzerland was analysed. In this paper we investigate which structures the kindergarten children perceived and described and whether they oriented themselves towards other participants in their descriptions. The results of the study show that children use four main strategies in their descriptions and that they adopt descriptions from other children as well as from the kindergarten teacher. These takeovers can be seen both positively (children learn how to describe structures) and critically, as they may inhibit their own individual perceptions.
| Name of the event | Conference Host | Place of the event | Start date of the event | End date of the event |
Fourteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME14) | European Society for Research in Mathematics Education | Bozen-Bolzano | February 3, 2025 | February 8, 2025 |
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