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ERIC Number: ED584257
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Nov
Pages: 8
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A Call to Action: Towards an Ecological-Dynamics Theory of Mathematics Learning, Teaching, and Design
Abrahamson, Dor; Sánchez-García, Raúl
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (37th, East Lansing, MI, Nov 5-8, 2015)
Whereas Natural User Interface technological devices, such as tablets, are bringing physical interaction back into mathematics learning activities, existing educational theory is not geared to inform or interpret such learning. In particular, educational researchers investigating instructional interactions still need intellectual and methodological frameworks for conceptualizing, designing, facilitating, and analyzing how students' immersive hands-on dynamical experiences become formulated within semiotic registers typical of mathematical discourse. We present paradigmatic empirical examples of tutor-student behaviors in an embodied-interaction learning environment, the Mathematical Imagery Trainer for Proportion. Drawing on ecological dynamics--a blend of dynamical-systems theory and ecological psychology--we describe the emergence of mathematical concepts from the guided discovery of sensorimotor schemes. [For the complete proceedings, see ED583989.]
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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