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Direct linkButeau, Chantal; Muller, Eric; Mgombelo, Joyce; Sacristán, Ana Isabel; Dreise, Kirstin – Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education, 2020
In this article, we seek to understand how university students learn to use programming as an instrument for 'authentic' mathematical investigations. We use the instrumental approach as a framework, focusing on how the transformation of the programming language into an instrument requires that the user develops or mobilizes multiple schemes at…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Programming, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills
Gueudet, Ghislaine; Buteau, Chantal; Muller, Eric; Mgombelo, Joyce; Sacristán, Ana Isabel; Rodriguez, Marisol Santacruz – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2022
We are interested in understanding how university students learn to use programming as a tool for "authentic" mathematical investigations (i.e., similar to how some mathematicians use programming in their research work). The theoretical perspective of the instrumental approach offers a way of interpreting this learning in terms of…
Descriptors: College Students, College Mathematics, Models, Concept Formation
Buteau, Chantal; Gueudet, Ghislaine; Muller, Eric; Mgombelo, Joyce; Sacristán, Ana Isabel – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
The instrumental approach is a useful theoretical lens for understanding students' learning processes with a main focus on the transformation of an artefact (a human design for a goal-directed activity) into a meaningful instrument (i.e. an artefact and schemes developed by the student). In this paper, we articulate the instrumental approach for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Programming Languages, Active Learning
Download full textRuiz-Arias, Perla Marysol; Sacristán, Ana Isabel – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2020
This paper presents a case study that is part of a research studying how university statistics teachers integrate digital tools in their practice. The case study is of a teacher who claims to follow constructionist ideas for her teaching of statistics, using the R programming language. The teacher developed a series of activities with R, aiming to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Statistics Education, College Mathematics, Data Analysis
Mascaró, Maite; Sacristán, Ana Isabel; Rufino, Marta M. – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2016
For the past 4 years, we have been involved in a project that aims to enhance the teaching and learning of experimental analysis and statistics, of environmental and biological sciences students, through computational programming activities (using R code). In this project, through an iterative design, we have developed sequences of R-code-based…
Descriptors: Programming, Statistics, Biological Sciences, Foreign Countries
Sacristán, Ana Isabel; Pretelín-Ricárdez, Angel – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2017
This work is part of a research project that aims to enhance engineering students' learning of how to apply mathematics in modelling activities of real-world situations, through the construction (design and programming) of videogames. We want also for students to relate their mathematical knowledge with other disciplines (e.g., physics, computer…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Engineering Education, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Models
