PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
Diagrams for the reasoning and proof of Amortization Formula
Page: 1551
Many liberal arts or humanities students who are required to take quantitative reasoning incollege have mathematics anxiety. One cause is a lack of symbolic skills for reasoning. Learningstyle theories suggest that different people learn in different ways. This study constructs adiagrammatic reasoning model for the concept of amortization to help students learnquantitative reasoning. The model also connects the basic concepts to the proof of the mortgagepayment formula.Key words