A Climbing Girl's Reflections about Angles

Autor/in	Fyhn, Anne Birgitte
Titel	A Climbing Girl's Reflections about Angles
Quelle	In: Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 25 (2006) 2, S.91-102 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0732-3123
DOI	10.1016/j.jmathb.2006.02.004
Schlagwörter	Females; Relevance (Education); Mathematical Concepts; Geometric Concepts; Mathematics Instruction; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Relevance; Relevanz; Elementare Geometrie; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Korrelation
Abstract	The main research question in this paper is whether a climbing discourse can be a resource for a school-geometry discourse. The text is based on a 12-year old girl's story from an exciting climbing trip during her summer holiday. The girl uncovers some of her knowledge that had been invisible to her; she is guided to see some relations between her climbing and her understanding of angles. In the beginning, this girl believes her story does not concern angles at all. The tools for uncovering angles in her story are based on different levels of visibility and objects of the climbing discourse combined with different conceptions of space. The girl develops her consciousness about "angles" as natural elements in her climbing activity and she is guided to see the "angle" as an object of her climbing discourse. (Contains 3 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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