Kónya, Eszter2024-09-042024-09-042006-06-01Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2006) , 111-1301589-7389https://hdl.handle.net/2437/379572The development of spatial ability, in particular the development of spatial orientation is one of the aims of mathematics education. In my work, I examine the concept of orientation, especially concepts of between, left, right, below, above, front, back, clockwise and anticlockwise. I analyze answers given for a simple orientation task prepared for elementary school pupils. I would like to call attention to the difficulties pupils have even in case of solving simple orientation problems. We have different ways to know more about the crucial points of a concept, especially of the concept of orientation. In this study I bring out one of them. I analyze and make some didactical conclusions about the origin and the axiomatic structure of orientation.application/pdfspatial abilityorientationtopographical contextlinear and cyclic orderfolyóiratcikkOpen AccessEszter Kónyahttps://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2006.0108Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science14Teach. Math. Comp. Sci.2676-8364