Thread by @helenjwc

Currently doing a lot of reading about recent research into spatial reasoning; Mulligan (2020), Resnick (2020), Verdine (2014), Gilligan (2017) and more (prep for my @NAMA_UK workshop in September) from age 3 up.
The 2020 #EYFS Framework has removed this as an ELG (rant coming)>

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and has only ONE SENTENCE on shape space and measures in the educational programme. Please dont go telling me that "the curriculum is more than the ELGs" and that this is adequate attention paid to spatial reasoning in this document.
It plainly isn't.
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Research is unequivocal as to the influence of early spatial reasoning teaching on later, wider mathematical achievement and yet we have a bloody ELG on automatic recall - which is NOT SUPPORTED BY RESEARCH AT ALL.

An evidence-informed #EYFS.
My arse.