Abstract
Children learn basic geometry through observing and manipulating objects and shapes and recognizing their essential properties. One of the basic omnipresent geometric concepts is symmetry. Children’s knowledge in many matters depends on their guardians and teachers. Therefore, they should possess appropriate content-related knowledge. The pilot study examines prospective preschool and primary school teachers’ ability to recognize axially symmetrical figures. The methodology is based on a designed test and analysis of obtained results gathered from a cohort of 56 prospective preschool and primary school teachers in the second year of university study in Slovakia. The results confirmed previous findings about vertical symmetry being the easiest recognizable form of symmetry, followed by horizontal symmetry. Importantly, prospective teachers tended to lack knowledge of axial symmetry as they rarely referred to it in given tasks. Further, the study points out important factors in designing a discrimination test for symmetry
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