Mathematics and the Body - Material Entanglements in the Classroom

This book expands the landscape of research in mathematics education by analyzing how the body influences mathematical thinking.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. When does a body become a body?; 2. The 'ontological turn' of inclusive materialism; 3. Diagrams, gestures, movement; 4. Inventiveness in the mathematics classroom; 5. Materialist approaches to mathematics classroom discourse; 6. The sensory politics of the body mathematical; 7. Mapping the cultural formation of the mathematical aesthetic; 8. The virtuality of mathematical concepts; Conclusion.

About the author

Elizabeth de Freitas is an associate professor at the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education at Adelphi University. She is the co-editor of Opening the Research Text: Critical Insights and In(ter)ventions into Mathematics Education (2008) and an associate editor of the journal Educational Studies in Mathematics.

Summary

This books presents an 'inclusive materialist' approach to studying mathematics education, which offers a fresh perspective on human and nonhuman bodies and their relationship to mathematical concepts. The authors provide empirical examples to challenge current assumptions about the role of the senses, language, and ability in teaching and learning mathematics.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth de Freitas, Elizabeth (Adelphi University De Freitas, Elizabeth de Freitas, Elizabeth De Sinclair Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair, Nathalie (Simon Fraser University Sinclair
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107039483
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03948-3
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in Doing: Social, Cog
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works