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The development of spatial and geometric thinking: The importance of instruction
This article presents levels of geometric thinking and the types of activities required to develop this thinking.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation Year 1
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P1, P2)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © 1997-2022 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material.
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