Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Simone Reinhold on 11.06.2024 (hybrid)

Geometry meets arithmetic: Strategies of preschool and primary school children when (mentally) decomposing, assembling and rotating spatial arrangements

Prof. Dr. Simone Reinhold from the University of Leipzig is our guest at the mathematics didactics colloquium. All interested students, lecturers and teachers are cordially invited. The event is offered hybrid.

What is the lecture about?

The development of spatial imagination and visual perception in children of pre-school and primary school age is an essential goal of geometric activities in elementary and primary education. The presentation will discuss the relevance of these spatial-visual skills for mathematics teaching, in particular for the acquisition of arithmetic skills.

In addition, results from our own studies on individual strategies of children of pre-school and primary school age for laying and building tasks with plane figures and spatial objects from elementary school geometry lessons will be presented. The focus will also be on the question of what possibilities are available in the practice of initial teaching to combine geometric activities with tasks for determining numbers and decomposing.

You can find more information about Prof. Dr. Simone Reinhold here.

Access to the Zoom room:

https://tu-dresden.zoom-x.de/j/68594754248?pwd=akpYS09IeWdtVjR6YURybjMwMHJ0UT09

Meeting ID: 685 9475 4248
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