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Walkington, Candace; Wang, Min; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Collaborative gestures in the mathematics classroom occur when multiple learners coordinate their bodies in concert to accomplish mathematical goals. Collaborative gestures show how cognition becomes distributed across a system of dynamic agents, allowing for members of groups of students to act and gesture as one. We explore ways high school…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, High School Students, Video Games, Grade 9
Swart, Michael I.; Schenck, Kelsey E.; Xia, Fangli; Kim, Doy; Kwon, Oh Hoon; Nathan, Mitchell J.; Walkington, Candace – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Hidden Village (THV) is a motion-capture video game for investigating how physical movements foster mathematical thinking and proof practices based on principles of embodied cognition. Analysis of the interactions of students in an all-Limited English Proficiency Title 1 high school geometry classroom revealed ways simulated enactment and…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Validity
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Walkington, Candace; Nathan, Mitchell J.; Woods, Dawn M. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
Research in mathematics education has established that gestures--spontaneous movements of the hand that accompany speech--are important for learning. In the present study, we examine how students use gestures to communicate with each other while proving geometric conjectures, arguing that this communication represents an example of extended…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Teaching Methods, Geometry