Gestures can help children learn mathematics: how researchers can work with teachers to make gesture studies applicable to classrooms

The gestures we produce serve a variety of functions-they affect our communication, guide our attention and help us think and change the way we think. Gestures can consequently also help us learn, generalize what we learn and retain that knowledge over time. The effects of gesture-based instruction...

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Published in:Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences 2024-10, Vol.379 (1911), p.20230156
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