| Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction: Of Hands, Flesh, and Mind; Part A: Toward a Theory of Mathematics in the Flesh; Introduction to Part A; 1 What Makes a Cube a Cube?: A Phenomenological Overture; 2 From Intellectualist Metaphysics to Embodiment Epistemologies; 3 Material Life as the Organizing Principle of Knowing; Part B: Stories of Mathematics in the Flesh; Introduction to Part B; 4 The Flesh, Distractions, and Mathematics; 5 Coordinating Touch and Gaze: Re/Constructing a Mystery Object; 6 Emergence of Measurement as the Realization of Geometry |
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7 Doing Time in Mathematical PraxisPart C: Emergence of Geometry--An Objective Science; Introduction to Part C; 8 Ethno-methods of Sorting Geometrically; 9 Reproducing Geometry as Objective Science; 10 Rethinking Mathematical Conceptions; Epilogue: From the Flesh to Society in the Mind; Appendix: Transcription Conventions; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Grounded in philosophical approaches to cognition, this book presents a radical reframing of how children learn geometrical concepts in their early years. The book exhibits the shortcomings of other theories, including embodiment and enactivist approaches and advances an understanding of mathematics in the flesh |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Primary -- Philosophy
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Geometry -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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Education, Primary -- Philosophy.
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Geometry -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203817872 |
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0203817877 |
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