When asked to draw different kinds of triangles, children reveal many creative ways to express variety. In this paper, the drawings of 81 children in the age between 4 and 6 will be examined and illustrated what kind of understanding of the concept "triangle" precedes the drawings. Therefore, different categories of the children's…

In this article, we present and discuss a project in which children in two different environments, in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and in the south-eastern part of Norway, were given the opportunity to express themselves through drawings. We investigate how differently--and how similarly--the children express themselves when they were…