Rio de Janiero | Carnaval | Academic & Social | Amazon |
The main academic purpose for the visit to Rio was to give the main plenary lecture for the First Workshop in History and Technology in the Teaching of Mathematics at the Univerdade do Estado do Rio De Janiero, February 21-23, 2002.
David formulates the role of embodied, proceptual and axiomatic modes of representation in his Plenary Lecture on Using Technology to Support an Embodied Approach to Learning Concepts in Mathematics. |
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The symbolism of limit as process and concept in the proceptual mode. |
Visualising the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus in the embodied mode in a manner which gives a proof of the theorem in the axiomatic mode. |
(The overheads for the presentation and the published paper are available for download from www.davidtall.com/papers.)
Victor and David relax. |
Marcia introduces a research presentation. |
Teresinha Kawasaki who is programming Visual Calculus in Java. |
Franck Bellemain the programmer of Cabri Géomètre |
The opening day of the conference was Sues birthday. We celebrated in style with a dinner party.
(Left to right:) Ana, Victor, David, Marcia, Sue, Beth, Luiz, Franck, and Anas husband.
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