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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
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Marmur, Ofer; Zazkis, Rina – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
We investigate how students make sense of irrational exponents. The data comprise 32 interviews with university students, which revolved around a task designed to examine students' sensemaking processes involved in predicting and subsequently interpreting the shape of the graph of f(x)=x[superscript square root of 2]. The task design and data…
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Graphs, Task Analysis