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Download full textMoreira, Valeria Guimaraes; Pinto, Marcia Maria Fusaro – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper reports ongoing research investigating how students' experiences with the notion of tangent line in different lecture courses at a technical school are being integrated to the related mathematical concept. Focusing on a technical course case study, we examine how aspects of the notion of tangent line are related to features of the…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Mathematical Concepts, Lecture Method, Mathematics Instruction
Jang, Younghee – 1992
This study investigated the cognitive benefits of learning how to program by determining the degree of cognitive transfer of programming skills at a construct level to solving analogous problems in other domains. Subjects, who were students enrolled in four sections of the beginning Pascal programming course and two sections of a calculus course,…
Descriptors: Calculus, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Intermode Differences
