Teachers' gestures are an integral part of their instructional communication. In this study, we
provided a teacher with a tutorial about ways to use gesture in connecting ideas in …

Interpreting and creating graphs plays a critical role in scientific practice. The K-12 Next
Generation Science Standards call for students to use graphs for scientific modeling …

This study considers tertiary calculus students' and instructors' conceptualizations of slope.
Qualitative techniques were employed to classify responses to 5 items using …

Translation skills are very important possessed by students, but currently, there are still
many students who have difficulty in translating between representations. The purpose of …

This study extends past research on students' understanding of slope by analyzing college
students' mistakes on routine tasks involving slope. We conduct both quantitative and …

Inquiry instruction often neglects graphing. It gives students few opportunities to develop the
knowledge and skills necessary to take advantage of graphs, and which are called for by …

In the subject matter of functional relationships, a student's ability to translate from one form
of representation to another is seen as a central competence. In the course of the HEUREKO …

Context personalization refers to matching instruction to students' out-of-school interests and
experiences. Belief in the benefits of matching instruction to interests is widely held in the …

Physics is characterized by the use of specific types of representations. These
representations play an important role in the teaching and learning of physics. This …

Este escrito reporta las conceptualizaciones de la pendiente de 21 estudiantes
universitarios. Para la recolección de datos se utilizó una entrevista basada en tareas y para …