How mental rotation skills influence children's aritmetic skills

ABSTARCT: In this paper, a comprehensive summary of research on the topic will be structured around the concepts of semiotic function and meaning, focusing on recent research in the influence of mental rotation skills over arithmetic skills on children. We search for underlying mechanisms that could...

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Autores:
Uribe Kaffure, Leonardo
Castro, Walter F.
Villa Ochoa, Jhony Alexander
Tipo de recurso:
Article of investigation
Fecha de publicación:
2017
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/12522
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10495/12522
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Significado
Arithmetic skills
Habilidades matemáticas
Semiotic function
Función semiótica
Mental rotation skills
Habilidades de rotación mental
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openAccess
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia
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Summary:ABSTARCT: In this paper, a comprehensive summary of research on the topic will be structured around the concepts of semiotic function and meaning, focusing on recent research in the influence of mental rotation skills over arithmetic skills on children. We search for underlying mechanisms that could explain such influence. As a result of the literature review, we conclude that there exist three possible mechanisms underpinning the relation of mental rotation skills and arithmetic skills: Working Memory, arithmetic-symbol reading capacity, and the concept of composition decomposition of figures and numbers. This study represents an effort for organizing and structuring, from an educational point of view, existing research on the relation between spatial and arithmetic skills in order to make it useful for instructional purposes.