This activity allows students to experience a parabola as a set of points equidistant from a point and a line. It starts from the isosceles triangle and continues towards expressing the formula of a parabola.
Publications:
- Shvarts, A., & Abrahamson, D. (2019). Dual-eye-tracking Vygotsky: A microgenetic account of a teaching/learning collaboration in an embodied-interaction technological tutorial for mathematics. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 22, 100316. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.LCSI.2019.05.003
- Shvarts, A. (2018) A dual eye-tracking study of objectification as student–tutor joint activity appropriation, In E. Bergqvist, M. Österholm, C. Granberg, & L. Sumpter (Eds.). Proceedings of the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 4, pp. 171-178). Umeå, Sweden: PME.
- Shvarts, A., Abrahamson D. (2018) Towards a Complex Systems Model of Enculturation: A Dual Eye-Tracking Study. The annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2018 SIG Learning Sciences), New York City, 13-18 April, 2018.