Appropriateness evaluation: the presentation of geometry in 3-6 school using structured materials

Journal title CADMO
Author/s Benedetto Scoppola, Francesca Tovena, Carlo Maria Scoppola
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2024/2
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 78-89 File size 200 KB
DOI 10.3280/CAD2024-002006
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We discuss the possibility to use structured materials in order to present the plane geometry to the children in 3-6 school. We comment on two texts in which this possibility is drastically excluded, and we discuss some more recent neurophysiological results that clarify the features that such early presentation of the plane geometry should have. We compare such features with the Montessori proposal.

Keywords: 3-6 school, plane geometry, structured materials, neuroscience, teacher’s training.

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Benedetto Scoppola, Francesca Tovena, Carlo Maria Scoppola, Valutazioni d’opportunità: il caso della presentazione della Geometria nella scuola dell’infanzia attraverso materiali strutturati in "CADMO" 2/2024, pp 78-89, DOI: 10.3280/CAD2024-002006