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A Perspective on Games and Patterns

A Perspective on Games and Patterns

Dores Ferreira, Pedro Palhares, Jorge Nuno Silva
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781466645028|ISBN10: 1466645024|EISBN13: 9781466645035
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4502-8.ch014
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Ferreira, Dores, et al. "A Perspective on Games and Patterns." K-12 Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 247-267. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4502-8.ch014

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Ferreira, D., Palhares, P., & Silva, J. N. (2014). A Perspective on Games and Patterns. In I. Management Association (Ed.), K-12 Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 247-267). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4502-8.ch014

Chicago

Ferreira, Dores, Pedro Palhares, and Jorge Nuno Silva. "A Perspective on Games and Patterns." In K-12 Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 247-267. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4502-8.ch014

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Abstract

In the last few years, the authors have been carrying out a study involving elementary school students from 3rd to 6th years of schooling. The main goal of this study is to identify the possible relationships between the ability to identify patterns and the ability to play games, in particular mathematical games. The research methodology is quantitative and most of the analysis is concerned with the verification of correlation between variables. The analysis takes into account seven factors (besides the ability of pattern recognition) identified through a factor analysis carried out on data. With these tools, the authors have been able to differentiate games according to the different measurements. In this chapter, they disclose the important steps of this research as well as the results and main conclusions reached so far.

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