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Hitt, Fernando; González-Martín, Alejandro S. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
Semiotic representations have been an important topic of study in mathematics education. Previous research implicitly placed more importance on the development of institutional representations of mathematical concepts in students rather than other types of representations. In the context of an extensive research project, in progress since 2005,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Debate, Reflection, Cooperative Learning
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Gal, Hagar; Linchevski, Liora – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2010
In this paper, we consider theories about processes of visual perception and perception-based knowledge representation (VPR) in order to explain difficulties encountered in figural processing in junior high school geometry tasks. In order to analyze such difficulties, we take advantage of the following perspectives of VPR: (1) Perceptual…
Descriptors: Knowledge Representation, Visual Perception, Cognitive Processes, Geometry