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Radford, Luis; Bardini, Caroline; Sabena, Cristina; Diallo, Pounthioun; Simbagoye, Athanase – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The cognitive significance of the body has become one of the major topics in current psychology. However, it is our contention that claims about the embodied nature of thinking must come to terms with the problem of the relationship between the body as a locus for the constitution of students' subjective mathematical meanings and the historical…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Mathematical Concepts, Semiotics, Cognitive Psychology
Sabena, Cristina; Radford, Luis; Bardini, Caroline – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
In this paper we focus on the role of signs in students' perceptive processes underpinning the generalization of numeric-geometric patterns. Based on a videotaped Grade 9 classroom group activity undertaken by three students and framed by a cultural-semiotic theoretical perspective, we carry out a microgenetic analysis of an elementary form of…
Descriptors: Generalization, Grade 9, Semiotics, Nonverbal Communication