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Nemirovsky, Ricardo; Ferrara, Francesca; Ferrari, Giulia; Adamuz-Povedano, Natividad – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2020
This paper focuses on the emergence of abstraction through the use of a new kind of motion detector--WiiGraph--with 11-year-old children. In the selected episodes, the children used this motion detector to create three simultaneous graphs of position vs. time: two graphs for the motion of each hand and a third one corresponding to their…
Descriptors: Motion, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Software
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Huang, Ding-wei; Huang, Wei-neng; Tseng, Hsiang-chi – Physics Education, 2005
Students of General Physics often complain that the course is too abstract and remote from daily life. As teachers, we emphasize that the abstract concepts of physics are indispensable for understanding our daily experiences, and we try to give the impression that quantitative descriptions can be achieved by adopting concrete mathematical…
Descriptors: Physics, Problem Solving, Science Education, Mathematical Formulas