Current Projects
Embodied Professional Development
The PD focuses on geometry content, where the central activity, the Embodied Icosahedron, involves teacher groups in collaborative learning-by-building of a body-scale geometrical structure, an activity developed within the embodied design research framework.
Geometry Resources in Dance (GRiD)
GRiD is a gridded floor mat designed to bridge the discourse of mathematics and dance.
Kinemathics
Through our design-research studies, we are investigating for relations between moving and learning, particularly as these relations may be of relevance to mathematics education—”learning is moving in new ways”.
MOVES-Number Line
Students solve basic addition and subtraction problems on a body-scale walking NL.
Special Education Embodied Design (SpEED)
Special Education Embodied Design (SpEED) sets out to develop guiding principles for building and running embodied design for special education students’ learning of mathematics.
Students Tracking Angular Rotation Recorder (STARR)
STARR engages learners in a culturally situated mathematical activity involving two participants in a constructed planetarium.
TeleTangibles
The project’s vision is to inclusively bring hands-on, embodied learning into the current educational landscape through the launch of a new genre of STEM resources that the team calls TeleTangible a set of flexible.
ОЯТНО
Publications Potęga vel Żabik, K., Iłowiecka-Tańska, I., & Abrahamson, D. (2024). It takes two to OЯTHO: A tabletop action-based embodied design for the Cartesian system <Snapshot>. Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education, 10(2), 189-201. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40751-024-00139-8Previous Projects
Balance Board Math
Balance Board Math (BBM) aims to foster new forms of inclusive math pedagogy by incorporating learner’s experiences of balance. Learners rock on a wooden balance board to explore a range of mathematical concepts including functions, negative numbers and absolute value.
Building Relational Vocabulary Together
Building Relational Vocabulary Together (BRVT) is a pedagogical activity designed to help children with complex communication needs learn and practice using relational vocabulary in the context of a dyadic goal-oriented ‘barrier-game.’
Debugging Failure
Fostering youth academic resilience in computer science
Defining Practice
This design-based research project explores spontaneous practices of generating mathematical definitions as pragmatic solutions to repair problems of communication.
Distributed Learning in Practice and Theory
This line of research uses agent-based modeling to study and develop theoretical models of individual group learning.
Fractal Village
Design-based research utilizing a critical and constructionist pedagogical philosophy in an alternative high school setting to study mathematical agency, computational literacy, and identity.
Geometris
Create an engaging environment in which learners can have a collaborative, embodied experience of geometry.
Gesture Enhancement of Virtual Agent Mathematics Tutor
A virtual pedagogical agent designed to support students in an embodied, discovery-based learning environment.
Giant Steps for Algebra
A design-based research project investigating the cognition, teaching, and learning of early algebra.
Handing Down Mathematics: The Roles of Gesture in the Design, Teaching, and Learning of Ratio and Proportion
Analyzing videotaped classroom interactions to understand the roles of gesture in the design, teaching, and learning of mathematics.
Magical Musical Mat
A communicative platform that surfaces the embodied interactions of students in Special Education.
Metaphor Retheorized
Mathematics learning as grounded in developing new sensorimotor perceptual structures.
Paradigmatic Didactical Mathematical Problematic Situations
We designed, implemented, and evaluated an experimental curriculum for pre-service teachers and future education researchers enrolled in graduate-level college courses on mathematics cognition, learning, and instruction.
Seeing Chance
Bridging Informal and Formal Visualizations of Probability Experiments.
SignEd|Math
Signs of mathematics: Fostering the development of conceptual gestures among deaf students
The Real World as a Trick Question: Mathematical Modeling, Knowledge, and Assessment
Conducting and analyzing probability-related clinical interviews with college students majoring in statistics to explore issues of intuitive reasoning.