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Procedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013 AbstractGeometry is a basic skill to be mastered. It is important in architecture and design, in engineering and in various aspects of construction work. However, in Malaysian education system, the process of teaching and learning geometry does not reflect its importance.
Effandi Zakaria, Abdul Halim Abdullah
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The van Hiele Levels at Czech Secondary Schools
Procedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015 AbstractThis paper focuses on the results of a pilot study based on the van Hiele theory of geometric thinking at Czech secondary schools. The van Hiele theory describes how young people learn geometry. It postulates five levels of geometric thinking.
Jiří Haviger
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van Hiele Levels of Thinking Predict Students' Mathematics Grade
JPAIR, 2014 The van Hiele levels of thinking has five reasoning levels, namely, holistic, analytic, abstract, deductive, and rigorous. This study aimed to determine the effects of spatial activities to the students' van Hiele Levels of thinking. It evaluated the van
Purisima Yap
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Education Sciences, 2023 Helping learners to develop a solid grasp of geometric concepts poses a challenge for teachers. Therefore, it is important that teachers have a sound understanding of the geometry they teach.
Sarah Bansilal, Bansilal Sarah
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Assessment standards, Van Hiele levels, and grade seven learners’ understandings of geometry
Pythagoras, 2005 A number of researchers in mathematical education assert that the instruction in geometry offered in South African schools is inadequate and that traditional teaching strategies do little to promote teachers understandings of their learners’ levels of ...
Nosisi Feza, Paul Webb
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Journal of Modern Science, 2018 The paper begins with a short description of phenomenological ideas of Petr Vopěnka concerning the development of children’s geometric concepts and his notion of personality of a phenomen, which makes the phenomenon an individual entity.
Zbigniew Semadeni
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The Van Hiele Geometry Thinking Levels: Gender and School Type Differences
Procedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 AbstractThis research shows that it would be very appropriate to divide the teaching of geometry into different levels according to van Hiele theory. Secondary schools, with regard to their specialization, should determine what levels they want to achieve, and adapt teaching geometry to that goal.
Jiří Haviger
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Rotations and Levels of Reasoning, according to the Van Hiele model: Results of an Experience
Educación, 2019 This article presents the results of a qualitative research of ethnographic design, carried out with eight (8) students of fifth grade of the Fernando Belaúnde Terry secondary school of Ate, the objective of the investigation was to know the development ...
Mercedes Maritza Sarrín Suárez
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Pythagoras, 2022 This article is an advanced theoretical study as a result of a chapter from the first author’s PhD study. The aim of the article is to discuss the relationship between commognition and the Van Hiele theory for studying discourse during Euclidean geometry
Sfiso C. Mahlaba, Vimolan Mudaly
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Perspectives in Education, 2013 This case study describes and investigates the instructional practices of Grades 1 to 5 teachers and the levels of geometry thinking of the learners, according to the Van Hiele model, with a view to determining whether there is a match between the ...
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