PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2014
Denver, Colorado
Students’ and Experts’ Ways of Reasoning about Partial Derivatives Across STEM Contexts
Page: 1135
A common feature across STEM disciplines is the study of change. Mathematically, we express the concept of changing one parameter while fixing others by using partial derivatives. However, how we use partial derivatives and how we talk about partial derivatives vary dramatically across STEM disciplines. The purpose of this poster is to share our preliminary results from student and expert problem-solving interviews about partial derivatives.