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Van den Eynde, Sofie; van Kampen, Paul; Van Dooren, Wim; De Cock, Mieke – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
We report on a study investigating the influence of context, direction of translation, and function type on undergraduate students' ability to translate between graphical and symbolic representations of mathematical relations. Students from an algebra-based and a calculus-based physics course were asked to solve multiple-choice items in which they…
Descriptors: Graphs, Equations (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Physics
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Adu-Gyamfi, Kwaku; Bossé, Michael J. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
This study examined student actions, interpretations, and language in respect to questions raised regarding tabular, graphical, and algebraic representations in the context of functions. The purpose was to investigate students' interpretations and specific ways of working within table, graph, and the algebraic on notions fundamental to a…
Descriptors: Algebra, Abstract Reasoning, Graphs, Case Studies
Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference includes the following research reports: (1) Improving Decimal Number Conception by Transfer from Fractions to Decimals (Irita Peled and Juhaina Awawdy Shahbari); (2) The Development of Student Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs in Mathematics during…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Metalinguistics