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ERIC Number: EJ1488934
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-2199-3246
EISSN: EISSN-2199-3254
Available Date: 2024-09-29
Mathematics MOVES Me--Digital Solutions for Co-Ordinating Enactive and Symbolic Resources: The Case of Positive and Negative Integer Arithmetic
Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education, v11 n2 p262-275 2025
We present an innovative educational design for basic arithmetic that responds to students' documented difficulties with adding and subtracting single-digit positive and negative numbers. The design utilizes MOVES, a technological architecture that combines floor- and wall-projected interactive interfaces. Students enact arithmetic operations, e.g., "3 - (-2)" by walking along a projected body-scale number line, while their actions are captured and analyzed to provide in-the-moment feedback on elements of their solution procedure. Next, a screen-based avatar is introduced who mimics their whole-body movements. Finally, analogous problems are presented on a tablet that utilizes tangible interaction, where seated students walk the avatar, now as an action-figure, along a standard-sized number line. Our theoretical framework, design conjecture, product evaluation, and data analysis all pertain to fostering conceptual understanding through co-ordinating full-body egocentric experiences on a body-scale number line with the allocentric experience of "puppeting" the avatar along the desk-scale number line. We introduce the educational design and report on its pilot trials. Based on these preliminary results, we speculate on the nature and type of supports that students require to co-ordinate these perspectives and discuss implications for future iterations of the design.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; 2San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA; 3Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; 4Scuola Universitaria Professionale Della Svizzera Italiana, Manno, Switzerland; 5Korea University, Seoul, South Korea