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Rodriguez, Jon-Marc G.; Jones, Steven R. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2021
In this paper, we describe a framework for characterizing students' graphical reasoning, focusing on providing an empirically-based list of students' graphical resources. The graphical forms framework builds on the knowledge-in-pieces perspective of cognitive structure to describe the intuitive ideas, called "graphical forms", that are…
Descriptors: Graphs, Mathematical Logic, College Students, Calculus
Sauerheber, Richard; Muñoz, Brandon; McCallum, Kalvin – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
Graphical analysis of the relationships between pairs of integrals and their corresponding derivatives resulted in the development of a procedure one may describe as 'pictorial integration'. The arctangent of the derivative of various functions was analysed to confirm that this accurately reports the magnitude of angles made by integral functions…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Pictorial Stimuli, Graphs
Drimalla, James; Tyburski, Brady A.; Byerley, Cameron; Boyce, Steven; Grabhorn, Jeffrey; Roman, Christopher Orlando; Moore, Kevin C. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2020
We reflect on the limitations of our research group's prior methods for assessing covariational reasoning which primarily used graphical tasks found in extant literature. Graphical tasks dominate the literature on covariational reasoning, and through our use of these tasks we came to question the heavy reliance on them. Our concerns led us to ask…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Graphs, Evaluation Methods, Calculus
Rodríguez-Nieto, Camilo Andrés; Rodríguez-Vásquez, Flor Monserrat; García-García, Javier – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
The quality of the intra-mathematical connections made by Mexican university students when solving tasks on the derivative was characterized. The typology of mathematical connections and the quality levels of mathematical connections were used. Interviews were conducted based on eight tasks applied to three case studies. The results showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Late Adolescents, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Kouki, Rahim; Griffiths, Barry J. – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
In this article we present the results of an investigation into semiotic aspects of an introductory differential equations class from two countries. In order to perform a comparative analysis, students in the USA and Tunisia were given common questions on their midterm exams that examined analytical and graphical competencies. Our results indicate…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Calculus, Algebra, Graphs
Bruder, Andrea; Kohler, Brynja R. – PRIMUS, 2020
Although modeling is an integral process in applied mathematics, students rarely encounter modeling opportunities in their calculus courses. We introduce a laboratory experience as a starting point for calculus students to investigate multivariable functions. A layered system of coffee and milk serves as a physical model for temperature gradients…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Climate, Food
Frank, Kristin Marianna – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Researchers have documented the importance of seeing a graph as an emergent trace of how two quantities' values vary simultaneously in order to reason about the graph in terms of quantitative relationships. If a student does not see a graph as a representation of how quantities change together then the student is limited to reasoning about…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Graphs, Calculus, College Students
Cho, Peter; Norris, Benjamin; Moore-Russo, Deborah – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2017
This study focuses on how students in different postsecondary mathematics courses perform on domain and range tasks regarding graphs of functions. Students often seem to focus on notable aspects of a graph and fail to see the graph in its entirety. Many students struggled with piecewise functions, especially those involving horizontal segments.…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Graphs, Mathematical Concepts
Ögren, Magnus; Nyström, Marcus; Jarodzka, Halszka – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
Textbooks in applied mathematics often use graphs to explain the meaning of formulae, even though their benefit is still not fully explored. To test processes underlying this assumed multimedia effect we collected performance scores, eye movements, and think-aloud protocols from students solving problems in vector calculus with and without graphs.…
Descriptors: Calculus, Graphs, Problem Solving, Attention
Vincent, Brittany; LaRue, Renee; Sealey, Vicki; Engelke, Nicole – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2015
This study explored first-semester calculus students' understanding of tangent lines as well as how students used tangent lines within the context of Newton's method. Task-based interviews were conducted with twelve first-semester calculus students who were asked to verbally describe a tangent line, sketch tangent lines for multiple curves, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, Interviews, Mathematical Concepts
Habre, Samer – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
Covariational reasoning has been the focus of many studies but only a few looked into this reasoning in the polar coordinate system. In fact, research on student's familiarity with polar coordinates and graphing in the polar coordinate system is scarce. This paper examines the challenges that students face when plotting polar curves using the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Activities, Problem Solving, Geometry
Bollen, Laurens; van Kampen, Paul; De Cock, Mieke – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
Understanding Maxwell's equations in differential form is of great importance when studying the electrodynamic phenomena discussed in advanced electromagnetism courses. It is therefore necessary that students master the use of vector calculus in physical situations. In this light we investigated the difficulties second year students at KU Leuven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Calculus, Electronics, Magnets
Caprotti, Olga – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2017
This paper describes investigations in visualizing logpaths of students in an online calculus course held at Florida State University in 2014. The clickstreams making up the logpaths can be used to visualize student progress in the information space of a course as a graph. We consider the graded activities as nodes of the graph, while information…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Calculus, Markov Processes, Graphs
Seneres, Alice W.; Kerrigan, John A. – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2014
There are specific topics in college calculus that can be major stumbling blocks for students. Having taught college calculus for four years to over a thousand students, we observed that even the students who have already taken pre-calculus or calculus during their high school careers had common misunderstandings. Students may remember a technique…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Calculus
El-khateeb, Mahmoud M. A. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the misperceptions and performance of king Saud University students' about concept and finding the limit of same partial functions given in the form of both graphical and symbolic. In the collection of the data, the researcher employed the open-ended question test consisted of four items. Firstly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Misconceptions
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