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Handgester - ett sätt att uttrycka matematik: En observationsstudie av elevers användande av gester i geometri
Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication.
2020 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Hand gestures - one way to express mathematics : An observation study of pupils’ gestures in geometry (English)
Abstract [sv]

Syftet med studien är att bidra med kunskap om hur elever i lågstadiet använder sig av gester för att kommunicera och uttrycka sig i matematik. För att besvara syftet utgår studien från två forskningsfrågor som fokuserar på elevers gester och muntlig kommunikation i samband med att de bygger en konstruktion med tre-dimensionella geometriska kroppar. Studien grundar sig i embodied cognition vilket innebär att man förutsätter att lärande sker med hjälp utav kroppen. Studiens metod utgörs av observationer med åtta elever, där samtliga observationstillfällen spelades in. Materialet analyserades med hjälp av en tematisk analys som resulterade i några centrala teman i studien. Resultatet visar att de deltagande eleverna i stor utsträckning använder gester för att uttrycka sig och kommunicera i geometri. Eleverna använde gester i samband med att de uttryckte geometriska kroppars form, läge och position. En av studiens slutsatser är att gester kan användas för att komplettera eller förtydliga elevers tankar när de bygger konstruktioner med geometriska kroppar.

Abstract [en]

The purpose with the study is to contribute with knowledge about how pupils in the elementary school use gestures to communicate and express mathematics. To achieve the purpose of the study the two research questions focus on pupils’ hand gestures and oral speech when they build a construction with geometrical three-dimensional shapes.

The study is based on the theory of embodied cognition, which means that knowledge and learning is embodied. The data consists of observations with eight pupils and all the observation was recorded. The material was analysed using a thematic analysis and proceed to find central themes in the material. The result shows that the pupils frequently use gestures to express and communicate in geometry. The pupils used gestures when they expressed the shape but also situations and positions of the geometric shapes. The conclusion is that gestures can be used as a complement and to clarify the pupils’ thoughts when they build a construction with geometrical shapes.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 36
Keywords [en]
gestures, mathematics, geometry, embodied cognition
Keywords [sv]
Gester, matematik, geometri, embodied cognition
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Social Sciences Educational Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49266ISRN: JU-HLK-JU-2-20200933OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-49266DiVA, id: diva2:1440253
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HLK, Mathematics for teaching and learnin
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