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Kelton, Molly L.; Ma, Jasmine Y. – Cognition and Instruction, 2020
In this article, we report on a video-based field study of an intergenerational family's enactment of a mathematical object (a torus) in the context of an immersive mathematics exhibition in a science center. To do this, we center interwoven, multi-party mobilities at multiple scales--walking, gesturing, touching, and postural adjustments -- as…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Exhibits, Science Teaching Centers, Family (Sociological Unit)
Crain, Rhiannon Lorraine – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Interactive science centers are unique players in the science education community, but their positioning as both authorities on science and providers of "free choice" learning presents learning researchers with a problematic contradiction rooted in the complexities of trying to be both "scientific" and "education" organizations. Using insight from…
Descriptors: Exhibits, Science Teaching Centers, Science Education, Learning Activities