Reflexive actions of junior schoolchildren when solving problems

The article presents a study aimed at studying the characteristics of reflexive actions in the theoretical (general, generalized) and empirical (private) methods of solving combinatorial problems. With students of the third grade, four series of individual experiments were carried out on the material of the author's methodology "Strips". As a result, it was shown that reflexive actions associated with essential relations in the conditions of a problem are the defining characteristic of a theoretical, meaningfully generalized way of solving it.