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RESEARCH PAPER
Semiotic analyses of actions on digital and analogue material when sorting data in primary school
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Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science Education, Goethe-University Frankfurt, GERMANY
Publication date: 2022-06-03
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2022;18(7):em2126
KEYWORDS
diagrammatic reasoningmathematical actionsprimary school childrensemioticperspective on learning mathematicsstatistical learning
ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on the actions of learners on digital and analogue materials while dealing with
a statistical problem. To investigate the learners’ actions, a semiotic perspective of mathematical
learning according to C. S. Peirce is used, since in this perspective learning mathematics is
described as visible activities on diagrams. Through a qualitative semiotic analysis of the actions
of two third-graders working with given data, the statistical diagram interpretations of the learners
can be reconstructed. A comparison of the reconstructed diagram interpretations reveals whether
different movements lead to similar diagram interpretations. In addition, it is of interest whether
the diagram interpretations are the same when acting on digital and analogue diagrams because
the same mathematical relationships have to be observed. Through this comparison, conclusions
can be drawn about the similarities and differences in working with digital and analogue materials
and how these materials may be used profitably in statistical learning.
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