WHAT

• A research project aimed at studying the use of dynamic geometry software as a spatial programming language at the primary school level.

WHO

• Nathalie Sinclair, Simon Fraser University.

Collaborators

• Victoria Guyevskey
• Sandy Bakos
• Mathieu Thibault

WHERE

See http://www.sfu.ca/geometry4yl/websketchpad.html

OUTCOMES

• Two month classroom intervention with grade 2/3 students, experimenting with CT activities centrally involving geometry, spatial reasoning and the use of dynamic geometry software.

DISSEMINATION

• Sinclair, N. and Patterson, M. (to appear). The dynamic geometrisation of computer programming. Mathematics Thinking and Learning.

NEXT STEPS

• Preparing two PME papers based on the work conducted in the grade 2/3 classroom, which focused on constructing shapes and on looping.
• Preparation for classroom experimentation next year, which will be in a grade 5 classroom.