Emerging perspectives on gesture and embodiment in mathematics

Other Authors: Edwards, Laurie D.,, Ferrara, Francesca,, Moore-Russo, Deborah,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2014]
Physical Description: xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series: International perspectives on mathematics education.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Deborah Moore-Russo, Francesca Ferrara, and Laurie D. Edwards
  • Embodiment, modalities, and mathematical affordances / Laurie D. Edwards and Ornella Robutti
  • Embodied knowledge in the development of conservation of quantity: evidence from gesture / Martha W. Alibali, R. Breckinridge Church, Sotaro Kita, and Autumn B. Hostetter
  • Gesture's role in learning arithmetic / Susan Goldin-Meadow, Susan C. Levine, and Steven Jacobs
  • Analytic-structural functions of gestures in mathematical argumentation processes / Ferdinando Arzarello and Cristina Sabena
  • An exploratory study of multimodalities in the mathematics classroom: Enrica's explanation / Francesca Ferrara, Ornella Robutti, and Laurie D. Edwards
  • The gestures of blind mathematics learners / Lulu Healy and Solange Hassan Ahmad Ali Fernandes
  • Embodied cognition across dimensions of gesture: considering teacher's responses to three-dimensional tasks / Deborah Moore-Russo and Janine M. Viglietti
  • The role of conscious gesture mimicry in mathematical learning / Caroline Yoon, Michael O. J. Thomas, and Tommy Dreyfus
  • Reconceiving modeling: an embodied cognition view of modeling / George Sweeney and Chris Rasmussen
  • More than mere handwaving: gesture and embodiment in expert mathematical proof / Tyler Marghetis, Laurie D. Edwards, and Rafael Núñez
  • Blending across modalities in mathematical discourse / Nathaniel J. Smith.