Covering Shapes with Tiles: Primary Students' Visualisation and Drawing.

Investigates students' early concepts of area by analyzing responses to a worksheet of items that involved visualizing the tiling of given figures. Concludes that half of the students had difficulty visualizing the tiling of shapes, but those students who participated in spatial activities were generally more successful in determining the number of tiles that would cover a shape. Contains 18 references. (Author/ASK)