PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
Children’s Topological Thinking
Page: 1609
This poster presents an ongoing investigation into children’s topological thinking. Prior research identified and advanced children’s informal ideas about topological equivalence – and equivalence and invariance more broadly. This investigation extends that research into children’s thinking about related ideas such as order, separation, and coverings. Newly identified forms of geometric thinking have implications for the teaching and learning of geometry and for research into students’ mathematical thinking.