ERIC Number: EJ746448
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 51
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Making a Circle: Tool Use and the Spaces where We Live
Noble, Tracy; DiMattia, Cara; Nemirovsky, Ricardo; Barros, Apolinario
Cognition and Instruction, v24 n4 p387-437 2006
A group of high school students created a drawing of a circle using a device called the Drawing Machine. To describe their experiences, we propose an alternative to the idea that to master a tool one must create a mental version of the tool. We suggest, instead, that as students change their relationships to a tool over time, their lived-in spaces change. Drawing on studies of practice, we explore the roles of past experience, planning, and communication in the development of students' lived-in spaces as they increase their competence with the tool and with the mathematics of drawing a circle.
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Experience, Planning, Drafting, Equipment, Communication (Thought Transfer), Geometric Concepts, Competence
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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