PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2016
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A qualitative study of the ways students and faculty in the biological sciences think about and use the definite integral
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In this poster, I share my methods and pilot interview results concerning a qualitative study of the ways undergraduate students and faculty from the biological sciences think about and use the definite integral. In this research, I utilize task-based interviews including five applied calculus tasks in order to explore how students and faculty think about area, accumulation, and the definite integral. Early results from pilot interviews helped me revise the interview protocols and indicate that student reasoning may be affected by experience and context. In presenting this poster, I hope to gain feedback from the community on my research methodology and potential analytical strategies.