PROCEEDINGS OF THE 23RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2020
Boston, Massachusetts
Undergraduates’ geometric reasoning of complex integration
Page: 1170
In this research we explored undergraduate students’ geometric reasoning of complex integration before the instructor taught it in the course. We found that the participants leveraged their knowledge about complex multiplication to construct a local model of complex integration. In an effort to develop a global model, which attends to the accumulation aspect of integration, we found that our participants struggled due to the thinking real, doing complex phenomenon.