Manipulative imagination: how to move things around in mathematics

DOI10.1387/THEORIA.17871MaRDI QIDQ5205215zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Valeria Giardino

Publication date 10 December 2019

Published in THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.17871

zbMATH Keywords

``make-believeaffordancescognitive toolsembodied cognitionembodied mathematicsmanipulative imagination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methodology of mathematics (00A35) Cognitive processes, learning theories (aspects of mathematics education) (97C30)

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