Generalizing figural patterns with students of 8 and 9 years old: an interpretation of the semiotic means of objectification mobilized

Abstract

Abstract:This paper reports the semiotic objectification means that arose among 7 and 8 year-old children from a school in Bogota D.C., Colombia ina math class, when they addressed a generalization task of figural patterns as a process of meaning production. The analysis was conductedaccording to the cultural theory of objectification (Radford, 2008), particularly the layers of generality and the semiotic means of objectificationdeveloped by the student it. Found that students in this study identified the semiotic means employed by Radford (2010) and were located ina layer of factual generality.

Keywords

• generalization, objectification theory, gestures, semiotic means.