A 3D visualization teaching-learning trajectory for elementary grades children / Jacqueline Sack, Irma Vazquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sack, Jacqueline, author.

Vazquez, Irma, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary).

Mathematics.

Information visualization.

Three-dimensional imaging.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 44 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[Switzerland] : Springer, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Introduction/ Preface

1.1 Project's origins

1.2 Brief overview of the book's organization

2. Theoretical Frameworks

2.1 Why are visualization skills important?

2.2 Research methodology

2.3 Spatial Operational Capacity framework

2.4 School and classroom context

2.5 Pre-program interview

3. Introductory Activities

3.1 Four block houses

3.2 The Soma puzzle figures

3.3 Coordinating 2-Soma assembly figures

4. 2D to 3D to abstract top-view plans

Geocadabra interface

4.1 Learning to use Geocadabra

the Geobuddy manual

4.2 Explaining Difficult Figures in the Geocadabra manual

4.3 Front side top views

5. 3D to 2D via top-view numeric plans

5.1 Self-created task card puzzles; solving others' puzzle cards

5.2 Finding multiple solutions for each puzzle card

5.3 Invention of a coding system for assembly figures with holes or overhangs

5.4 Extended Construction Box

making sense of 3-space using shadows

5.5 Rectangular prisms and top-view numeric representations

making sense of the LWH volume formula

6. Connections to numeracy

6.1 Expanding and scaling the Soma cube

6.2 Permutations within cake patterns. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.

ISBN:

9783319297996

3319297996

Publisher Number:

99983028012

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.