@article{9761a8a711f4404b95b169c17d6610e1,
title = "Family meshworks: children{\textquoteright}s geographies and collective ambulatory sense-making in an immersive mathematics exhibition",
abstract = "We present a video-based study of family visits to Taping Shape, an immersive exhibition that allows visitors to explore the inside of geometric objects. The exhibition was designed to support embodied sense-making, intimacy, and material encounter with mathematical objects. This study builds on research on walking and movement as forms of place- and sense-making. We draw on the notion of a meshwork to examine how children and their families co-produce, develop familiarity with, and assemble meanings for the exhibition space. This case study focuses on 4-year-old Easton and his extended family, exploring how Easton{\textquoteright}s talk and movements are part of an intergenerational meshwork that weaves together an emergent and distributed sense of place within the built geometries of Taping Shape. Our findings further considerations of embodiment and materiality in children{\textquoteright}s geographies.",
keywords = "Meshworks, embodiment, family learning, informal mathematics education, space",
author = "Kelton, {Molly L.} and Ma, {Jasmine Y.} and Cierra Rawlings and Bohdan Rhodehamel and Patti Saraniero and Ricardo Nemirovsky",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by the Informal Mathematics Collaborative project funded by the National Science Foundation through Grant DRL-1323587. We also thank Nicole Ferry, the Fleet Science Center, the InforMath team, and our research participants for their contributions to this work. Funding Information: This research was supported by the Informal Mathematics Collaborative project funded by the National Science Foundation through grant DRL-1323587. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. This research was supported by the Informal Mathematics Collaborative project funded by the National Science Foundation through Grant DRL-1323587. We also thank Nicole Ferry, the Fleet Science Center, the InforMath team, and our research participants for their contributions to this work. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, {\textcopyright} 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",
year = "2018",
month = sep,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1080/14733285.2018.1495314",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "16",
pages = "543--557",
journal = "Children's Geographies",
issn = "1473-3285",
publisher = "Carfax Publishing Ltd.",
number = "5",
}