hand gestures and mathiness!

[aesc]

Hee! I came across this last night, and it's great!

Gestures Convey Message: Learning in Progress
Children who talk with their hands do better at math

Neuroscientists have found, for example, that the part of the brain that controls hand movements is often active when people are doing math problems. "As though you're counting fingers," Glenberg said.

[Washington Post article]

This explains a lot, and means there were probably a lot of little kids getting smacked in Rodney's first-grade class. And what a terribly cute mental picture that is, too.



May have to do a Hands of Enthusiastic Explanation picspam, because apparently research has also shown that teachers who incorporate gestures into lecture/explanation are more effective.

ETA: And, as tx_tart points out, the potential to be really, really hot :>

Comments

[the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com]

i can't explain why that makes me really happy. but that makes me really happy.

(maybe it's happy!fleece!rodney in the mix?)

:D

[aesc.livejournal.com]

It makes me very happy! I am usually a very still, contained person, but if I'm trying to explain something, I start waving my hands around like there are invisible pixies and I'm trying to shoo them off.

(maybe it's happy!fleece!rodney in the mix?)

Hee! He's so pleased with himself there, isn't he? "I just explained the hell out of gate power requirements."

[the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com]

the worst thing is when i do it with the hand that's not holding the phone to my ear! Though actually that research kind of explains why that might happen. cool. :)

"I just explained the hell out of gate power requirements."

AND somehow made orange fleece hot. impressive. ;)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

AND somehow made orange fleece hot. impressive. ;)

Yes! Perhaps there is some corellation between expansiveness of hand gestures, genius, and hotness :D

[the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

i think you also need to factor in 'wearing not realising he is hot' because that's an important part of it. no one puts on orange fleece and goes 'oh yeah! all the ladies are going to want me!'

[aesc.livejournal.com]

no one puts on orange fleece and goes 'oh yeah! all the ladies are going to want me!'

*snuggles him*

[inthekeyofd.livejournal.com]

I know, I've always talked with my hands, it's just my thing--that's why I apprectiate Rodney so..actually it really is a sign of intelligence, and I'm not tooting my own horn, it's been shown that not only do people understand more of what someone who talks with their hands is trying to convey, especially directions, but apparently they make better actors too.

I found all this out after one day of being ridiculed by someone saying to me, "If you sat on your hands, could you talk?" I then asked them if they understood what I was saying now?--and proceeded to give them the finger..and let me say their little jibe backfired everyone around turned on that person.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I know, I've always talked with my hands, it's just my thing

I do too, especially when I'm explaining or lecturing. My students last year were highly entertained... When I realized I was doing it, I tried to stop, but then I'd start mangling a paper clip or twisting a rubber band around my fingers, and honestly didn't know what to do with myself.

[tex.livejournal.com]

research has also shown that teachers who incorporate gestures into lecture/explanation are more effective.

And apparently they also have the potential to be really, really hot. ;)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

And apparently they also have the potential to be really, really hot. ;)

This, too, is very correct :> *edits for purposes of pointing this out*

Heh heh... am imagining Rodney hypnotizing a bunch of undergraduates.

[twincy.livejournal.com]

Fleeeeeeeeeeeeece.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yay fleece!

[twincy.livejournal.com]

*fleecegasm*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*fleecegasm*

FTW!

[dogeared.livejournal.com]

Hello, adorably squishy Rodney, hello!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Adorably squishy Rodney says "Hello, Jenn!" and smishes you!

[let-fate-decide.livejournal.com]

Pssst! Did you see orange-fleece!David in the extras on the ADB DVD? :X
*dies* This man is adorable. *swoon*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

This man is adorable.

He so is! *sigh*

I haven't had much time for DVD-watching... I got in my ADB viewing and most of SG3, but not much time for the extras asdlkjf stupid work.

[dancink.livejournal.com]

Huh. Because I've talked with my hands all my life, and I suck at math. And by sucking at math, I mean, I find it difficult to do simple multiplication in my head, let alone anything difficult.

Also, ::pets Orange-Fleeced!Rodney::

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Because I've talked with my hands all my life, and I suck at math.

So do I. I haven't read the actual paper (which is still forthcoming), but the impression I get is that there's a correlative relationship only (and what the strength of that correlation is, I don't know), and that some of us with overactive hands will just have to suck at math because of it :>

The same thing holds true for math and languages... I am very good with languages, but I don't learn them the same way people learn math, by patterns and rules.

::pets Orange-Fleeced!Rodney::

He is very pet-able :>

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

Oh! My family, when they want me to be quiet, makes me sit on my hands, because I *cannot* talk that way.

That may be my favorite photo of Rodney ever.

(Also: your birthday fic is REFUSING to be a PWP. And plot takes so damn long! So, forgive me for its belatedness? ::waves hands cutely::)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

My family, when they want me to be quiet, makes me sit on my hands, because I *cannot* talk that way.

Poor you! *pets* Usually I am a fairly quiet person, but when asked to explain something, I'm capable of going on at great length and accessorizing with numerous gestures.

That may be my favorite photo of Rodney ever.

He's so happy and pleased with himself! And the sleeves of his jacket covering his wrists... so cute :>

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

I like your description of gestures as accessories!

Plus the position of his hands is just glorious.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) They are very important to set off what I'm saying, especially because I tend to babble the more excited I get about what I'm talking about.

Oh, and because I forgot in my last comment (*sigh* very long seminar tonight), worry not! *anticipates nonetheless*

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

Whew! I have found a beta, because that's a challenge when you're a new writer. So the delay means it stands a chance of being worth the wait!

Of course, it also gives it time to breed plot bunnies. There's this one with John and a sceptre...

[pollitt.livejournal.com]

Hands. *guh*

I can just imagine Rodney, mid-lecture with his hands moving--up, down, showing examples of this and that, holding the Dry Erase marker in his hand like a mad conductor--explaining some theory or equation, and the entire class is rapt. I would even go so far as to say there's more than a couple of students with "Love You" written on their eyelids (ala Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark).

And John would be in the back corner, top left, Rodney's left, leaning back, arms crossed, watching with that grin on his face because he knows what those hands are capable of. The mathematics of touch, the ratio of skin touched to the speed of John's breath and heartbeat, how Rodney knows angles and curves of John's body and how their bodies fit together in perfect compliment.

Plus, whispering complex number structures and theorems (not to mention the new Mersenne conjecture) gets Rodney hot and bothered and John really, really likes when that happens ;)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

The mathematics of touch, the ratio of skin touched to the speed of John's breath and heartbeat, how Rodney knows angles and curves of John's body and how their bodies fit together in perfect compliment.

*produces small, incoherent noise*

asdlkjf oh that's absolutely perfect. meeeeep yes, perfect, wonderful geometry.

[pollitt.livejournal.com]

<>*produces small, incoherent noise*

*g* I've been itching to write but packing has been eating my time. Thank you for the opportunity to flex the fingers a little. The boys were glad to be let out to play for a couple of moments :)

meeeeep yes, perfect, wonderful geometry.

I may've just packed up a Calculus book and had math on the brain (+McShep). Thank you.