Teachers’ gestures and students’ learning: sometimes “hands off” is better

Abstract During mathematics instruction, teachers often make links between different representations of mathematical information, and they sometimes use gestures to refer to the representations that they link. In this research, we investigated the role of such gestures in students’ learning from les...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Amelia Yeo, Iasmine Ledesma, Mitchell J. Nathan, Martha W. Alibali, R. Breckinridge Church
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-10-01
Series:Cognitive Research
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41235-017-0077-0