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How Do Students Learn To Apply Their Mathematical Knowledge To Interpret Graphs in Physics?
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Woolnough, Jim – Research in Science Education, 2000
Describes a laboratory-based program in physics designed to help students build effective links between the mathematical equations used to solve problems in mechanics and the real world of moving objects. Conducts the study among senior college students and points out the value of laboratory work in science education for development of thinking…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach