| Title: |
Making a Circle: Tool Use and the Spaces where We Live |
| 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 |