Geometrical Thinking with Technology: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Geometry thinking is the ability of students to think of the relationships between geometrical properties and its spatial relations. The use of technologies for teaching and learning in classes has spread worldwide into schools. With the use of technology, the difficulties of learning geometry through paper and pencil were overcome and allowed the students' geometrical thinking skills to develop. Thus, the systematic review in this article aims to review the recent technologies that have been used in school education for geometrical thinking to see how they help students and the results of the technological intervention. We have used internet search engines to conduct the survey, using keywords related to geometrical thinking and technology. We have surveyed several main international publishers to search for the papers that comply with the criteria of geometrical thinking with technology in school education. The analysed papers have provided an insight of a promising outcome from the use of technology towards students' geometrical thinking however, the most frequent outcomes and impacts were on the achievement of knowledge acquisition on the geometry concepts. The range of technologies used in the reviewed papers were discussed together with the limitations and recommendation for future work in this area.