Prospective Primary Teachers’ Metaphorical Perceptions Towards Mathematics
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For Lakoff and Johnson (2005), who believe that metaphorical relations form a considerable part of conceptual system, metaphor is to understand and experience a phenomena/fact according to a phenomena/fact. Being primarily a means of perception, metaphor includes a transfer of information from the known end to new/unknown end, in teaching of mathematics, abstractness of mathematical notions and pretty much hardness of these notions indirectly, accentuate metaphors as a powerful mental model in understanding of abstract, complex or theoretical fact, and in explaining metaphors as a powerful mental model. There are many research revealed that metaphors, in recent years, are said to be a powerful means of research determining perceptions (Inbar, 1996; Guerrero and Villamil, 2002; Saban et al. 2006).
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