The development of perspective is generally assumed to affect children's ability to read and interpret maps. The ability to coordinate perspectives involves the realization that objects and groups of objects appear differently from different points of view. A sample of elementary school children from grades K through 6 was used to study the relationship between perspective ability and map conceptualization. A test patterned after Piaget's three-mountain experiment measured the ability to coordinate perspectives. A map drawing task measured the ability to conceptualize the spatial relations of objects on a map. Analyses showed significant correlations between the two tasks.
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