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"Instead of gravity pointing down, it’s now pointing up": Enhancing physics students’ connection between mathematics and mechanism
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Jared Arnell, Hillary Swanson, Boyd Edwards, Kaden Hart, Sadra Jafari Ghalehkohneh, and John Edwards
Digital simulations are especially helpful in physics education, but most simulations provide only a visualization of a phenomenon while obscuring the mathematical relationships that model its behavior. Our team is developing a suite of online simulations called DynamicsLab, which combine visual representations with an ability to input and alter the accompanying physics equations. Here, we share excerpts from a group of clinical interviews, in which intermediate physics students explored the first iterations of a DynamicsLab simulation of a characteristic problem in Classical Mechanics: the bead-on-a-hoop. The students were given predict-observe-explain prompts to investigate the way they connected the mathematical representation to the physical phenomenon. We highlight four episodes in which students had to revise their predictions, and how these instances indicate that engaging with the DynamicsLab simulation encouraged the students to build more robust connections between their physical and mathematical reasoning.
Physics Education Research Conference 2024
Part of the PER Conference series Boston, MA: July 10-11, 2024 Pages 28-33
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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=16867">Arnell, J, H. Swanson, B. Edwards, K. Hart, S. Jafari Ghalehkohneh, and J. Edwards. ""Instead of gravity pointing down, it’s now pointing up": Enhancing physics students’ connection between mathematics and mechanism." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA, July 10-11, 2024.</a>
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J. Arnell, H. Swanson, B. Edwards, K. Hart, S. Jafari Ghalehkohneh, and J. Edwards, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA, 2024, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16867&DocID=5934).
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J. Arnell, H. Swanson, B. Edwards, K. Hart, S. Jafari Ghalehkohneh, and J. Edwards, "Instead of gravity pointing down, it’s now pointing up": Enhancing physics students’ connection between mathematics and mechanism, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA, 2024, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16867&DocID=5934>.
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Arnell, J., Swanson, H., Edwards, B., Hart, K., Jafari Ghalehkohneh, S., & Edwards, J. (2024, July 10-11). "Instead of gravity pointing down, it’s now pointing up": Enhancing physics students’ connection between mathematics and mechanism. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA. Retrieved December 3, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16867&DocID=5934
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Arnell, J, H. Swanson, B. Edwards, K. Hart, S. Jafari Ghalehkohneh, and J. Edwards. ""Instead of gravity pointing down, it’s now pointing up": Enhancing physics students’ connection between mathematics and mechanism." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA, July 10-11, 2024. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16867&DocID=5934 (accessed 3 December 2024).
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Arnell, Jared, Hillary Swanson, Boyd Edwards, Kaden Hart, Sadra Jafari Ghalehkohneh, and John Edwards. ""Instead of gravity pointing down, it’s now pointing up": Enhancing physics students’ connection between mathematics and mechanism." Physics Education Research Conference 2024. Boston, MA: 2024. 28-33 of PER Conference. 3 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16867&DocID=5934>.
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