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Metaphors for learning and doing mathematics in advanced mathematics lectures
- Source :
- Educational Studies in Mathematics. 105:1-17
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- The metaphors that students form and encounter have been shown to exert a powerful influence on how they think about mathematics. In this paper, we explore the linguistic metaphors about learning and doing mathematics that were prevalent in 11 advanced mathematics lectures. We present four metaphor clusters that were common in the corpus that we analyzed: Learning Mathematics is a Journey, Doing Mathematics is Work, Mathematics is Discovery, and Presenting Mathematics is a Story. We conclude the paper by discussing the implications of the metaphors that mathematicians use and students hear in their mathematics courses.
- Subjects :
- Metaphor
General Mathematics
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Teaching method
05 social sciences
MathematicsofComputing_GENERAL
050301 education
Literal and figurative language
Education
Mathematics education
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Computational linguistics
Discovery learning
Mathematics instruction
0503 education
050104 developmental & child psychology
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730816 and 00131954
- Volume :
- 105
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Educational Studies in Mathematics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........0b8033b75be5f4f5313c1fd6be6ec73c