PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
Connecting Physics Students’ Conceptual Understanding to Symbolic Forms Using a Conceptual Blending Framework
Page: 1607
In an effort to understand physics students’ construction of equations in terms of mathematical structures, previous work has employed a symbolic forms framework. To account for students’ contextual physics understanding related to these structures for vector differentials, we mapped symbolic forms into the framework of conceptual blending to model students’ construction of equations. This allows us to shed further light on recent literature in this area.