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Children’s marks and
drawings begin with gestures. Infants and young
children explore marks they make with fingers,
feet and with different parts of their bodies (Matthews,
1999). Matthews has identified what he terms
generational marks and these marks will later
provide the basis for the marks children use in
symbolic languages such as writing and
children’s mathematical graphics (Carruthers
and Worthington, 2006).
Paper:
The Art of Children’s Mathematics
Children also use
drawings as just one of the
forms through
which they explore, represent and communicate
their mathematical meanings: their visual
representations are
multi-modal. |
