An alternative path of embodying geometrical concepts: Student gestures

This study aims to reveal how the embodied cognition of certain geometrical concepts secondary-school students arises via gestures and what kinds they produce while engaging with different concepts. The participants comprised four eleventh-grade studying at a state high school in Turkey. focused on related angle, measure an congruence-similarity, translation. Data were gathered video-recorded focus group discussions individual interviews, for each concept was coded using content analysis. According research findings, it found that deictic reflect grounding physical environment; representational manifest mental simulations action perception, some metaphoric body-based conceptual metaphors.