Making a Circle: Tool Use and the Spaces where We Live
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| Title: | Making a Circle: Tool Use and the Spaces where We Live |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Noble, Tracy, DiMattia, Cara, Nemirovsky, Ricardo |
| Source: | Cognition and Instruction. 2006 24(4):387-437. |
| Availability: | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 10 Industrial Avenue, Mahwah, NJ 07430. Tel: 800-926-6579; Tel: 201-258-2200; Fax: 201-236-0072; e-mail: journals@erlbaum.com; Web site: https://www.erlbaum.com. |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 51 |
| Publication Date: | 2006 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | High Schools |
| Descriptors: | High School Students, Student Experience, Planning, Drafting, Equipment, Communication (Thought Transfer), Geometric Concepts, Competence |
| DOI: | 10.1207/s1532690xci2404_1 |
| ISSN: | 0737-0008 |
| Abstract: | A group of high school students created a drawing of a circle using a device called the Drawing Machine. To describe their experiences, we propose an alternative to the idea that to master a tool one must create a mental version of the tool. We suggest, instead, that as students change their relationships to a tool over time, their lived-in spaces change. Drawing on studies of practice, we explore the roles of past experience, planning, and communication in the development of students' lived-in spaces as they increase their competence with the tool and with the mathematics of drawing a circle. |
| Abstractor: | Author |
| Entry Date: | 2006 |
| Accession Number: | EJ746448 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | A group of high school students created a drawing of a circle using a device called the Drawing Machine. To describe their experiences, we propose an alternative to the idea that to master a tool one must create a mental version of the tool. We suggest, instead, that as students change their relationships to a tool over time, their lived-in spaces change. Drawing on studies of practice, we explore the roles of past experience, planning, and communication in the development of students' lived-in spaces as they increase their competence with the tool and with the mathematics of drawing a circle. |
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| ISSN: | 0737-0008 |
| DOI: | 10.1207/s1532690xci2404_1 |
