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Apkarian, Naneh; Tabach, Michal; Dreyfus, Tommy; Rasmussen, Chris – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
This study furthers the theory of conceptual blending as a useful tool for revealing the structure and process of student reasoning in relation to the Sierpinski triangle (ST). We use conceptual blending to investigate students' reasoning, revealing how students engage with the ST and coordinate their understandings of its area and perimeter. Our…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Education, Masters Programs
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Yoon, Caroline; Thomas, Michael O. J.; Dreyfus, Tommy – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2011
This paper examines how a person's gesture space can become endowed with mathematical meaning associated with mathematical spaces and how the resulting mathematical gesture space can be used to communicate and interpret mathematical features of gestures. We use the theory of grounded blends to analyse a case study of two teachers who used gestures…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Calculus, Motion, Teaching Methods
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Kidron, Ivy; Dreyfus, Tommy – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2010
This case study deals with a solitary learner's process of mathematical justification during her investigation of bifurcation points in dynamic systems. Her motivation to justify the bifurcation points drove the learning process. Methodologically, our analysis used the nested epistemic actions model for abstraction in context. In previous work, we…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Case Studies, Learning Processes, Mathematics Instruction