Gestures in teaching and learning geometry

• Autor(a) principal: Leivas, José Carlos Pinto
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Mathias, Carmen Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Alexandria (Florianópolis)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/alexandria/article/view/75027

In this article, a qualitative research were presented whose objective was to analyzed and illustrated types of iconic gestures made by participants in two workshops in a game created by the studies and research of a consolidated group next to a postgraduate program. The first workshop involved students from a Mathematics Degree and the second high school students. The corpus of gestures produced was taken advantage of to verify how the gestures vary depending on the context in which the subject is inserted. Five iconic gestures were produced most frequently by competitors. The results showed that the individuals expressed their gestures within a mathematical context and used their hands in abundance in their actions. We also concluded that the gestures expressed the geometric thinking of the participants, indicating a form of expression complementary to speech in the teaching process, in particular.