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ERIC Number: EJ1268018
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Sep
Pages: 17
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Metaphors for Learning and Doing Mathematics in Advanced Mathematics Lectures
Olsen, Joe; Lew, Kristen; Weber, Keith
Educational Studies in Mathematics, v105 n1 p1-17 Sep 2020
The metaphors that students form and encounter have been shown to exert a powerful influence on how they think about mathematics. In this paper, we explore the linguistic metaphors about learning and doing mathematics that were prevalent in 11 advanced mathematics lectures. We present four metaphor clusters that were common in the corpus that we analyzed: Learning Mathematics is a Journey, Doing Mathematics is Work, Mathematics is Discovery, and Presenting Mathematics is a Story. We conclude the paper by discussing the implications of the metaphors that mathematicians use and students hear in their mathematics courses.
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Language: English
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