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Theorizing STEM Education in the 21st Century
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Fomunyam, Kehdinga George, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2020
Theorising STEM Education in the 21st Century is a book that captures the essence of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and the intricacies of STEM education in the contemporary society. It explores STEM as an interdisciplinary field as well as the individual disciplines that make up STEM. This ensures the field of STEM as a whole is…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Theories, Cognitive Processes
Grounded Blends and Mathematical Gesture Spaces: Developing Mathematical Understandings via Gestures
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Yoon, Caroline; Thomas, Michael O. J.; Dreyfus, Tommy – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2011
This paper examines how a person's gesture space can become endowed with mathematical meaning associated with mathematical spaces and how the resulting mathematical gesture space can be used to communicate and interpret mathematical features of gestures. We use the theory of grounded blends to analyse a case study of two teachers who used gestures…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Calculus, Motion, Teaching Methods
Strong and Weak Metaphors for Limits
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Oehrtman, Michael C. F. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
The metaphorical nature of first-year calculus students' reasoning about limit concepts is explored using an instrumentalist approach. Analysis of written and verbal language reveals that, while these students used motion terminology profusely when discussing limits, it was typically not intended to signify actual motion and did not play a…
Descriptors: Motion, Vocabulary, Calculus, Figurative Language
Interpreting Motion Graphs through Metaphorical Projection of Embodied Experience
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Botzer, Galit; Yerushalmy, Michal – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2006
This paper focuses on the cognitive processes that occur while students are exploring motion graphs. In a classroom experiment, we examine how high-school students (aged 17), with backgrounds in calculus and physics, interpret the graphs they create through drawing the path of the movement of their hand with a computer mouse. Based on recent, and…
Descriptors: Graphs, Physics, Motion, Cognitive Processes
Students' Tendency To Assume Resemblances between a Function and Its Derivative.
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Nemirovsky, Ricardo; Rubin, Andee – 1992
This study was designed to determine students' abilities and difficulties in articulating the relationship between function and derivative. High-school students were presented 15 problems during two 75-minute interviews in which they were asked to construct functions experimentally in three different contexts: motion, fluids, and number-change. In…
Descriptors: Air Flow, Calculus, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Proceedings of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference Held Jointly with the 25th PME-NA Conference (Honolulu, Hawaii, July 13-18, 2003). Volume 1
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Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference presents papers from: plenary panels; research forums; working sessions; discussion groups; short oral communications; and poster sessions from the meeting. Plenary lectures included: (1) Studying and Capturing the Complexity of Practice: The Case of…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Motion, Foreign Countries, Psychology