GESTURES AS EMBODIED VARIABLES AND EXPRESSIONS.
Hotomski, Mirjana.
2018
- A qualifying paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education. Abstract: Researchers have investigated how students may represent indeterminate (i.e., variable or fixed unknown) quantities using expressions in natural language, non-numerical symbols, and external representations, implicitly treating indeterminate quantities much as if ... read morethey were known quantities (Radford, 2011). The present study aims to address the role of gestures in the development of student’s algebraic thinking; specifically their use of variables and expressions. This is an underexplored area on which I focus by addressing the following research question: How do sixth graders’ gestures reflect their work with indeterminate quantities and the ways in which they operate on those quantities? Specifically, the present study provides evidence that sixth grade students used gestures as embodiments of indeterminate quantities, covariation, and doubling, and that they combined gestures into embodied forms of expressions.read less
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