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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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Sahinkaya, Nihan; Kilic, Cigdem – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2021
Geometry can be defined as finding patterns and standard principles within and between the shapes, which contributes to learning of mathematics. This study aims at revealing the perceptions of pre-service primary school teachers on the geometry concept using metaphors. For this purpose, pre-service teachers were asked to fill in the blanks in a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language, Language Usage
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Ennassiri, Brahim; Abouhanifa, Said; Elkhouzai, Elmostapha – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
The aim of this paper is to analyse the reasoning and symbolisations used by sixth grade Moroccan students in solving a task based on figurative patterns. Our analysis aims at identifying the systems of actions elaborated by the students to give the general expression of the sequence, according to their perceptions of the sequence of its patterns.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra
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Çekirdekci, Sitki – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to reveal the perceptions of fourth-grade primary students about "mathematics lesson" through metaphors and to investigate whether main categories identified regarding the common characteristics of the metaphors differed by gender. A qualitative research design was employed in the study. The study was carried out…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Çetinkaya, Melike; Özgören, Çigdem; Orakci, Senol; Özdemir, M. Çagatay – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
In every society, the issue of whether an individual can do math has become a central issue. Middle school years, when students' perceptions towards math start to form, have a critical importance for them to develop a positive attitude towards math. The aim of this study is to determine the meaning that the students attributed to the math and to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Figurative Language
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Chikiwa, Clemence – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This study's focus was two-fold, first to look at forms of gestures teachers of multilingual mathematics classes use during teaching; and second to find out how teachers of multilingual mathematics classes utilize learners' home language, language of learning and teaching and gestures to foster understanding in the teaching of mathematics. This…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Speech Communication, Semiotics, Figurative Language
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Erdogan, Ahmet; Yazlik, Derya Ozlem; Erdik, Cengiz – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2014
The main purpose of this study was to research mathematics teacher candidates' perceptions about the concept of "mathematics" through the use of metaphors. The research is conducted during 2012-2013 academic year, on a group of 111 mathematics teacher candidates at the Education Faculty of a University in Turkey. To collect the research…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Figurative Language
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Kaplan, Jennifer; Fisher, Diane G.; Rogness, Neal T. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2010
Language plays a crucial role in the classroom. The use of specialized language in a domain can cause a subject to seem more difficult to students than it actually is. When words that are part of everyday English are used differently in a domain, these words are said to have lexical ambiguity. Studies in other fields, such as mathematics and…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Jargon
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Lai, Mun Yee – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2013
Current debates about successful mathematics pedagogy suggest that mathematical learning and problem solving can be enhanced by using metaphors as they provide students with a tool for thinking. But assisting pre-service teachers to understand the importance of careful and accurate explanations for mathematical concepts remains an issue. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Logical Thinking, Mathematical Models
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Dominguez, Higinio – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
While the metaphor of students bringing linguistic, cultural, and community resources to classrooms abounds in mathematics education research with non dominant students, teachers seem not to benefit from such metaphoric language as most of them struggle to figure out how such resources can be used during mathematics instruction. This paper urges a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Mathematics Instruction, English Language Learners, Grade 3
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Kiliç, Çigdem; Yanpar Yelken, Tugba – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Problem Statement: Recent studies in education have focused on how to handle metaphors as research and evaluation tools. Metaphors have many advantages for researchers, educators and learners with the most important being that they can help educators understand pre-service teachers' thinking and belief systems of mathematics. A study of previous…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Figurative Language, Language Usage
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Ernst-Slavit, Gisela; Mason, Michele R. – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This study investigates the oral academic language used by English as a second language prepared teachers during content area instruction in five upper elementary classrooms in the United States. Using ethnographic and sociolinguistic perspectives the authors examine the oral, academic language exposure students received from their teachers during…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Essien, Anthony A. – Perspectives in Education, 2010
This paper reports on an investigation into what teacher educators consider to be best practices in how to prepare pre-service teachers to effectively deal with the challenges of teaching Mathematics in multilingual contexts, and how what teacher educators consider as best practices inform their own classroom practice. Twelve teacher educators…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Coles, Alf – Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, 2008
Metaphor and metonymy are two ways people make meaning; two ways they perform transformations between thought and language and within both thought and language. In St. Augustine's language these two processes could be pictured as vertical or horizontal movements either from the world of signs to "reality" or within the world of signs itself. In…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Figurative Language, Mathematics Instruction, Creative Teaching
Noyes, Andrew – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
Contemporary metaphor theory here provides a framework for an initial exploration of metaphoric language used by pre-service mathematics teachers to describe mathematical knowledge and learning. Taking metaphoric expressions used by student teachers in early course assignments I'll begin to consider the affordances and constraints that arise from…
Descriptors: Poetry, Mathematics Teachers, Figurative Language, Student Teachers