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Soto, Hortensia – PRIMUS, 2022
In this paper, I share an activity that reinforces students' understanding of translations, reflections, and rotations via body movement. As a result of this activity, students gain a different perspective compared to previous explorations on paper, communicate mathematics, and visualize transformations as rigid motions on the plane. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Motor Reactions, Human Body, Mathematics Instruction, Visualization
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Ferrara, Francesca; Ferrari, Giulia – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
In this paper, we draw on the contemporary perspective of inclusive materialism offered by de Freitas and Sinclair to contribute to current discussions on the role of the body in the learning of mathematics. Using the notions of "distributed agency" and "assemblage," we illustrate the way in which three students engage with a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Learning Processes, Human Body, Task Analysis
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Pols, Freek; Dekkers, Peter; de Vries, Marc – Physics Education, 2019
Successfully carrying out a secondary school physics inquiry requires a considerable amount of procedural and content knowledge. It further requires knowledge of how and why maintaining scientific standards produces the best available answer to the given research question. To this purpose, a series of five inquiry activities was developed and…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
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Berney, Sandra; Bétrancourt, Mireille; Molinari, Gaëlle; Hoyek, Nady – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2015
The emergence of dynamic visualizations of three-dimensional (3D) models in anatomy curricula may be an adequate solution for spatial difficulties encountered with traditional static learning, as they provide direct visualization of change throughout the viewpoints. However, little research has explored the interplay between learning material…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Computer Simulation, Models
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Wang, Szu-Han; Tse, Dorothy; Morris, Richard G. M. – Learning & Memory, 2012
In humans and in animals, mental schemas can store information within an associative framework that enables rapid and efficient assimilation of new information. Using a hippocampal-dependent paired-associate task, we now report that the anterior cingulate cortex is part of a neocortical network of schema storage with NMDA receptor-mediated…
Descriptors: Animals, Learning Processes, Human Body, Brain
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Reichle, Erik D.; Pollatsek, Alexander; Rayner, Keith – Psychological Review, 2012
Nonreading tasks that share some (but not all) of the task demands of reading have often been used to make inferences about how cognition influences when the eyes move during reading. In this article, we use variants of the E-Z Reader model of eye-movement control in reading to simulate eye-movement behavior in several of these tasks, including…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Human Body, Inferences, Task Analysis
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Turinsky, Andrei L.; Fanea, Elena; Trinh, Quang; Wat, Stephen; Hallgrimsson, Benedikt; Dong, Xiaoli; Shu, Xueling; Stromer, Julie N.; Hill, Jonathan W.; Edwards, Carol; Grosenick, Brenda; Yajima, Masumi; Sensen, Christoph W. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2008
The authors have created a software system called the CAVEman, for the visual integration and exploration of heterogeneous anatomical and biomedical data. The CAVEman can be applied for both education and research tasks. The main component of the system is a three-dimensional digital atlas of the adult male human anatomy, structured according to…
Descriptors: Workstations, Computer Software, Computers, Biomedicine