Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms : Mathematics in the Flesh (Hardcover)

Introduction: Of Hands, Flesh, and Mind  A. Toward a Theory of Mathematics in the Flesh  Introduction to Part A.  1. What Makes a Cube a Cube? A Phenomenological Overture  2. From Intellectualist Metaphysics to Embodiment Epistemologies  3. Material Life as the Organizing Principle of Knowing  B. Stories of Mathematics in the Flesh  Introduction to Part B.  4. The Flesh, Distractions, and Mathematics  5. Coordinating Touch and Gaze: Re/Constructing a Mystery Object  6. Emergence of Measurement as the Realization of Geometry  7. Doing Time in Mathematical Praxis  C. Emergence of Geometry ? An Objective Science  Introduction to Part C.  8. Ethno-methods of Sorting Geometrically  9. Reproducing Geometry as Objective Science  10. Rethinking Mathematical Conceptions.  Epilogue: From the Flesh to Society in the Mind