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| Abstract Title: | Categories of mathematical sense making: Exploring how physics understanding can support mathematical understanding |
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| Abstract: | Recently there has been great interest in PER on student "sense making" and specifically on mathematical sense making. In an attempt to operationalize mathematical sense making, we present a framework that distinguishes between the object of the sense making (mathematical or physical) and the tool used for sense making (formal mathematics or conceptual physics), thus foregrounding focus and mechanism in student problem solving. In this framework, one possible mode of sense making occurs when a conceptual understanding of a physical system is used as a tool to understand a mathematical object, we label this mode of sense making physical sense making of math, or PSM-M. Here, after briefly presenting the complete framework, we explore the PSM-M mode of sense making by considering student reasoning across two topics in physics, the photoelectric effect and probability distributions. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session III |
| Poster Number: | C39 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Julian D. Gifford University of Colorado Boulder 390 UCB University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Jessica R. Hoehn (University of Colorado Boulder) Noah D. Finkelstein (University of Colorado Boulder) |
