From grounding metaphors to technological devices: A call for legitimacy in school mathematics

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 259-271

  Bazzini, Luciana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Functions; Grounding metaphors; Mathematics education; Metaphors; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944457920     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015143318759     Document Type: Article

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