A climbing girl's reflections about angles |
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Authors: | Anne Birgitte Fyhn |
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Institution: | Department of Education and Faculty of Science, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway |
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Abstract: | The main research question in this paper is whether a climbing discourse can be a resource for a school-geometry discourse. The text is based on a 12-year old girl's story from an exciting climbing trip during her summer holiday. The girl uncovers some of her knowledge that had been invisible to her; she is guided to see some relations between her climbing and her understanding of angles. In the beginning, this girl believes her story does not concern angles at all. The tools for uncovering angles in her story are based on different levels of visibility and objects of the climbing discourse combined with different conceptions of space. The girl develops her consciousness about angles as natural elements in her climbing activity and she is guided to see the angle as an object of her climbing discourse. |
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Keywords: | Angle Boring Climbing Discourse Exciting Geometry Visibility |
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