Learning Experience 1.1

Consider the following Diagnostic Tasks for Measurement: Desk through the doorway, and Snail Trails. https://myresources.education.wa.edu.au/programs/first-steps-mathematics/measurement   

Each assessment was implemented with a child in either F, 1 or 2. Using the literature you have read on spatial reasoning, analyse the work samples and assessment data through a spatial reasoning lens. What skills and spatial reasoning capabilities are being drawn on in each task? How to these connect with the mathematical concept(s) of focus?   

You may like to download a copy of these assessments and implement with your own class to explore further the connections between spatial reasoning and early mathematics.   

Hawes, Z., Moss, J., Caswell, B., Naqvi, S., & MacKinnon, S. (2017). Enhancing children’s spatial and numerical skills through a dynamic spatial approach to early geometry instruction: Effects of a 32-week intervention. Cognition and Instruction, 35(3), 236-264.