La concettualizzazione spaziale nel bambino: una sperimentazione con un robottino programmabile

This contribution focuses on the development of spatial conceptualization in young children, addressing the delicate relationship between space as lived in everyday experience vs space as a mathematical notion. On the background of psychological results on spatial conceptualisation in children, and taking a multimodal perspective on mathematics teaching and learning, an experimental study has been conducted in kindergarten school. Using the teaching-experiment methodology and qualitative data analysis of video-recordings, the study explored the didactic potentialities offered by a programmable robot with a bee-shape, with respect to children development of spatial competences.