MENTAL MODEL OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL THINKING IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING

Abstract

The article proposes a mental model for the development of spatial thinking of students when teaching geometry. It is proved that mental models are a set of tools that can help us make sense of ideas or understand what is happening around us. They allow us to identify cognitive deviations, understand why we think the way we think, and how we rationalize ideas. In the mental model created by us, the following elements were included in the development of imaginative thinking of students: teacher; didactic materials, teaching methods, strategies, techniques, and their necessity in this system is justified. The importance of the ability to establish dependencies and connections between the elements of the model in solving the problem under consideration is shown.