Students’ understanding of three-dimensional cube arrays: Findings from a research and curriculum development project

Michael T. Battista; Douglas H. Clements

doi:10.4324/9780203053461-15

Students’ understanding of three-dimensional cube arrays: Findings from a research and curriculum development project

Michael T. Battista
, Douglas H. Clements

Learning and Instruction

Kent State University

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Abstract

As part of our work in developing the geometry strand in the Investigations in Number, Data, and Space elementary mathematics curriculum project, we developed three-dimensional geometry instructional units for each of Grades 3, 4, and 5 (Battista & Berle-Carman, 1995; Battista & Clements, 1995a, 1995b). A major portion of these units focuses on exploring three-dimensional configurations of cubes, especially enumerating cubes in three-dimensional rectangular arrays. Concurrent with our curriculum development, we conducted a research program investigating students’ understanding of three-dimensional configurations of cubes (see Battista & Clements, 1996). This chapter gives an overview of both our research and our curriculum development efforts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Designing Learning Environments for Developing Understanding of Geometry and Space
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	227-248
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9781136490514
ISBN (Print)	0805819487, 9780805819496
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203053461-15
State	Published - Jan 1 2012

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