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Categorical Framework for Mathematical Sense Making in Physics
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Gifford, Julian D.; Finkelstein, Noah D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
We present a framework designed to help categorize various sense making moves, allowing for greater specificity in describing and understanding student reasoning and also in the development of curriculum to support this reasoning. The framework disaggregates between the mechanisms of student reasoning (the cognitive "tool" that they are…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, Physics, Thinking Skills