Just Math: A new epistemic frame
Abstract
A goal of PER is to understand how students use math in physics contexts. To investigate how students use math, we need to identify transitions between conceptual sense-making about physical systems and using mathematics to describe and to make predictions about those systems. We reviewed video of students solving a variety of physics problems in small groups through the lens of epistemic frames (e-frames). In this paper, we present a new e-frame, which we are calling "Just Math", that is similar to the Worksheet e-frame, but is characterized by brief, low-level, math-focused utterances between students. Future work will focus on analyzing the transitions into and out of this e-frame so that we may develop a more coherent understanding of students' use of math in physics.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.2927,
title = {Just Math: A new epistemic frame},
author = {Steven F. Wolf and Leanne Doughty and Paul W. Irving and Eleanor C. Sayre and Marcos D. Caballero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2927},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, accepted in the 2014 PERC proceedings