Action-property duality in embodied design

Abstract

For those working on embodied design it is a challenge to create tasks that enable students to develop abstract mathematical concepts. We approach this issue from the perspective of Sfard's notions of saming, encapsulation, and reification. We discuss a duality of properties and actions, and use this duality to review saming, encapsulation and reification from an action-and perceptionbased perspective. To illustrate the power of this theoretical contribution we discuss one new embodied task design and two from literature: MIT-P for proportion and a design for the gradient of a plane using the Augmented Reality Sandbox.