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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
Download full textNoble, Tracy – 2003
This paper investigates one high school student's use of gestures in an interview context in which he worked on the problem of understanding graphical representations of motion. The goal of the investigation was to contribute a detailed analysis of the process of learning as it occurred over a short time period in order to contribute to the…
Descriptors: Body Language, Graphs, Kinesthetic Perception, Mathematics Education
