From map reading to geometric intuitions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9786983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moira R Dillon (0000-0002-6689-5316, corresponding author), Elizabeth S Spelke (0000-0002-6925-3618) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1304-1316 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/dev0000509 |
| PMID | 29595310 |
| OpenAlex | W2795121451 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
The origins and development of our geometric intuitions have been debated for millennia. The present study links children's developing intuitions about the properties of planar triangles to their developing abilities to read purely geometric maps. Six-year-old children are limited when navigating by maps that depict only the sides of a triangle in an environment composed of only the triangle's corners and vice versa. Six-year-old children also incorrectly judge how the angle size of the third corner of a triangle varies with changes to the other two corners. These limitations in map reading and in judgments about triangles are attenuated, respectively, by 10 and 12 years of age. Moreover, as children get older, their map reading predicts their geometric judgments on the triangle task. Map reading thus undergoes developmental changes that parallel an emerging capacity to reason explicitly about the distance and angle relations essential to euclidean geometry. (PsycINFO Database Record
Euclidean geometry · Geometry · Linguistics · Non-Euclidean geometry · PsycINFO · Reading (process · Child and Animal Learning Development · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation
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The child's conception of geometry
Executive Functioning as a Predictor of Children's Mathematics Ability
Log or Linear? Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western and Amazonian Indigene Cultures
Exact and Approximate Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group
Deconstructing Building Blocks
How to Compare Apples and Oranges
Correlations between Scores for Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—III and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—III
Young children's representation of spatial information acquired from maps
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |