Prospective Primary Teachers’ Metaphorical Perceptions Towards Mathematics

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Ebru GÜVELİ, A. İPEK, Ercan ATASOY, Hasan GÜVELİ

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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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Ebru GÜVELİ, A. İPEK, Ercan ATASOY, Hasan GÜVELİ. (2013). Prospective Primary Teachers’ Metaphorical Perceptions Towards Mathematics. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), 2(2), 140–159. Retrieved from https://turcomat.org/index.php/turkbilmat/article/view/29
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