Engineering students' use of visualizations to communicate about representations and applications in a technological environment
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31 mars 2016
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Ninni Marie Hogstad et al., « Engineering students' use of visualizations to communicate about representations and applications in a technological environment », HAL-SHS : sciences de l'éducation, ID : 10670/1.2i7e0m
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Research about learning styles show that many engineering students are visually inclined. Therefore, we study engineering students' use of visualizations to communicate while solving mathematical problems. Based on a framework for mathematical representations, visualizations and mediation, we set up an explorative study with the visualization tool Sim2Bil, which combines a simulation of two cars, velocity graphs, and an input for velocity functions. We asked three engineering students to create a simulation for the cars with certain conditions and studied their visualizations related to verbal, graphical and symbolical representations. The visualizations were Sim2Bil-based, paper-based and gestures and these were all used in different stages of the problem solving.