Connecting Gestures and Images with Concepts in Geometry

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Geometry; Gestures; Games

Abstract

The research aimed to analyze how students identified concepts of Euclidean geometric entities, their properties, and relations, through gestures with the use of a game. The investigation is characterized, regarding technical procedures, as participant research with a qualitative approach and was carried out with high school students in a private school. The analyses performed, via categorization of the gestures used, indicated that students produce gestures more efficiently when they have a mental image of the geometric entity to be represented. The research also showed that those who play the role of observers in the game, identify the gesture produced when they have knowledge of the concept attached to it.

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Author Biographies

José Carlos Pinto Leivas, Universidade Franciscana

José Carlos Pinto Leivas has a degree from the Catholic University of Pelotas (UCPel), specialization from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Mathematics. His doctorate was in Education, in the Research Line in Mathematics Education, from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). He is a retired full professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG).

Carmen Vieira Mathias, UFSM

Carmen Vieira Mathias is a professor of mathematics at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). He holds a degree from the UFSM, and a master’s and doctorate degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Mathematics. She has been working as a volunteer since 2014 in an Extension Project entitled GeoGebra Course, in which more than 5000 teachers have already been trained to use the software that entitles the project in the teaching of Mathematics.

José Anchieta da Silva, UFSM

José Anchieta da Silva is a mathematics teacher at Basic Education. He works in private schools and preparatory courses in Santa Maria. He has a degree from the Faculty of Teaching and Research of Itajubá and is currently a student of the Professional Master’s Degree in Mathematics in National Network (PROFMAT) at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM).

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Published

2022-11-29

How to Cite

Leivas, J. C. P., Mathias, C. V., & da Silva, J. A. (2022). Connecting Gestures and Images with Concepts in Geometry. Educação & Realidade [Education & Reality], 47. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/117756

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Vol. 47 (2022)

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Copyright (c) 2022 José Carlos Pinto Leivas, Carmen Vieira Mathias, José Anchieta da Silva

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