The development of mathematical basic skills on spatial relation of young children by the cutting into pieces of natural materials on printing activity
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to studythe mathematical basic skills on spatial relation of young children experienced though the cutting into pieces of natural materials on printing activities and2) to compare the mathematical basic skills on spatial relation of young children between before and after themanagement of experiencethrough the cutting into pieces of natural materials on printing activities. The sample of this research were 20 boys and girls, 5-6 years old, studying in the second year of kindergarten in the second semester of the academic year 2012at UbonRatchathani Kindergarten School under the Ubon Ratchathani Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. The multi-stage random sampling was used to select the sample. The instruments used in this research were the lesson plans of the experience through thecutting into pieces of natural materials on printing activities and thetest of mathematical basic skills on spatial relation which the reliability was 0.97. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation and hypothesis testing was analyzed by dependent t-test. The results revealed that 1) The level of mathematical basic skills on spatial relation of young children experienced through the cutting into pieces of natural materials on printing activities wasgood in overall and in each aspect: the visual discrimination, the position in space perception, the perception of spatial relationships, and the perceptual constancy. 2)The mathematical basic skills on spatial relation of young children experiencedthrough the cutting into pieces of natural materials on printing activities after the experiment were higher than those before the experiment at the level of statistical significant .05in overall and in each aspect.