The Role of Gesture in Learning: Do Children Use Their Hands to Change Their Minds?

摘要: Adding gesture to spoken instructions makes those more effective. The question we ask here is why. A group of 49 third and fourth grade children were given instruction in mathematical equivalence with or without it. Children that included a correct problem-solving strategy significantly likely produce their own gestures during the same period than not exposed gesture. Those then succeed on posttest who did Gesture encourages own, which, turn, leads learning. may be able use hands change minds.