How mathematical is conceptual understanding?

• Conceptual understanding has widely been suggested as the key first link to gain a solid physicsunderstanding. By the means of empirical data from interviews with first year university studentsaround force and friction problems, we argue that conceptual understanding has to be developed inconjunction with a structural understanding of the potential mathematical solution to master the areamore thoroughly. Such structural understanding does neither necessarily seem to follow or precede aconceptual understanding.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Conceptual understanding

Newtonian mechanics

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kon (ämneskategori)

ref (ämneskategori)