- Title
- Potential of technology and a familiar context to enhance students’ concept of rate of change
- Creator
- Herbert, Sandra; Pierce, Robyn
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/68538
- Identifier
- vital:1396
- Identifier
- ISBN:1920486085
- Abstract
- Students’ concept image of rate of change may be incomplete or erroneous This paper reports a pilot study, with secondary school students, which explores the potential of technology (JavaMathWorlds), depicting a familiar context of motion, to develop students’ existing schema of informal understandings of rate of change to more formal mathematical representations Students developed numerous ‘models of’ rate of change in a motion context which then transferred to serve as a ‘model for’ rate of change in other contexts; E1
- Publisher
- Sydney : MERGA
- Relation
- Paper presented at 28th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), Sydney : 7th July, 2005 Vol. 2, p. 435-442
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright MERGA
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Students; Technology education
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