Could you describe me the Lego Brick drawing? A mathematical teaching experience in Kindergarten

Abstract

The awareness of the importance to observe,through a mathematical lens, the children drawings, considering them as diagnostic tools for the context that D’Amore et al. (2004) call as “Campo di Esperienza” Spazio, Ordine e Misura, is the base of this contribution. It discusses a didactic experience conducted in a Pre-Primary school (students 5 years old) in which we asked children to represent Lego bricks with a drawing. We also asked them to describe their works, tracing any sign of numerical-spatial difference with the real object, observed from different prospectives. The discussed results seem to us interesting both for researchers in Mathematics Education and for Pre-Primary and Primary School teachers who want to deepen the role of drawing as an expressive and diagnostic form to analyse students knowledge, abilities and proto-mathematical skills.