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Mathematical Imagery Trainer for Proportion

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Description

An embodied mathematics-learning environment developed by Dor Abrahamson and colleagues in which learners manipulate on-screen cursors to construct proportional relationships through staged visual and numerical overlays.

Components

  • Mathematical Imagery Trainer for Proportion (MIT-P): an embodied-interaction environment where the screen turns green only when cursor heights relate by a target ratio: The MIT-P is a design solution to students' enduring challenges with proportional relations: a student sits before a large red screen and is asked to 'make the screen green', which occurs only when the cursors' heights relate by the correct ratio (e.g., 1:2). The activity advances through stages, each launched when the instructor introduces a new display overlay — cursors, a grid, numerals along the y-axis — after the student satisfies a protocol criterion, with a full design including a ratio table for indirect control. An iPad version was released at the printed URL. (Dor Abrahamson et al. (2015))
  • Mathematics Imagery Trainer: a technologically enabled activity architecture for embodied mathematics learning: The Mathematics Imagery Trainer is a technologically enabled activity architecture in which students manipulate a geometrical figure, such as a rectangle, with both hands along orthogonal axes while color feedback signals a target ratio. The student is "tasked first to make the rectangle green and, once that is accomplished, to keep moving the two vertices while keeping the rectangle green". After a performance criterion is met, a human or virtual tutor introduces grids and numerals, and activities then move to paper-and-pen tasks formalizing the attentional anchor. (Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner (2022))

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Key Sources

  • Dor Abrahamson & Raúl Sánchez–García. (2015). A Call to Action: Towards an Ecological-Dynamics Theory of Mathematics Learning, Teaching, and Design. Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. http://www.tinyurl.com/FreeMITP
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title Mathematical Imagery Trainer for Proportion
description An embodied mathematics-learning environment developed by Dor Abrahamson and colleagues in which learners manipulate on-screen cursors to construct proportional relationships through staged visual and numerical overlays.
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