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Peer reviewedNemirovsky, Ricardo; Tierney, Cornelia; Wright, Tracy – Cognition and Instruction, 1998
Analyzed two children's use of a computer-based motion detector to make sense of symbolic expressions (Cartesian graphs). Found three themes: (1) tool perspectives, efforts to understand graphical responses to body motion; (2) fusion, emergent ways of talking and behaving that merge symbols and referents; and (3) graphical spaces, when changing…
Descriptors: Body Language, Children, Computer Assisted Instruction, Graphs
