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mail this InsideTeaching entry to a friend02 March 2005: A Nice Gesture (1 of 5)On February 23, 2005, the University of Chicago Science Daily published a report by the University of Chicago entitled "Teaching Math Two Ways at the Same Time Boosts Learning." For a link to the complete report, click The premise of the study was to determine how teaching math algorithms verbally and with gestures would enhance the learning of third and fourth grade students. But the study wasn't just about teaching with gestures. It was about using gestures to offer a different problem solving method than the one being described verbally.
This is how the mismatched gesture-and-speech lesson worked: The other interesting thing noted by the researchers was that students who were taught both strategies verbally (without any gestures) performed significantly lower on the performance task. Where the "mismatched gesture-and-speech lesson" was given, students averaged three out of six correct answers. Where only verbal instruction was used, students averaged only one out of six.
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teaching quote of the dayTell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
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