The mathematics motor activity story

Abstract

The idea of learning through motor activity is not new. In his Republic, Plato indicated that “learning takes place best through play and play situations.” In a more specific frame of reference that is more appropriate to the present discussion, Plato is reputed to have said, “Lessons have been invented for the merest infants to learn, by way of play and fun. … Moreover, by way of play, the teachers mix together [objects] adapting the rules of elementary arithmetic in play.”