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Scheiner, Thorsten; Bowers, David M. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
This paper problematizes the metaphors of unpacking, deconstructing, and decompressing mathematics that are prevalent in discourses about mathematics teacher knowledge. It is argued that the logic of these metaphors is based on the reversibility of packing, constructing, and compressing mathematics and seems to suggest the view that knowledge is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Colonialism, Mathematics Teachers
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Rumbelow, Michael – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2021
"Where Mathematics Comes From" (Lakoff & Núñez 2000) proposed that mathematical concepts such as arithmetic and counting are constructed cognitively from embodied metaphors of actions on physical objects, and four actions, or 'grounding metaphors' in particular: collecting, stepping, constructing and measuring. This article argues…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Figurative Language