Gestures as semiotic resources in the mathematics classroom

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-109

  Arzarello, Ferdinando ^a   Paola, Domingo ^b   Robutti, Ornella ^a   Sabena, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Liceo Issel   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gesture; Multimodality; Semiotic bundle; Semiotic game; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349156674     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-008-9163-z     Document Type: Article

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