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Session:
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PER: Student Content Understanding, Problem-Solving and Reasoning
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Paper Type:
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Contributed
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Title:
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Productive Physical Intuitions about Patterns of Motion
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Meeting:
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2018 Winter Meeting: San Diego, CA |
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Location:
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Date:
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Time:
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4:30PM
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Author:
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Benedikt W. Harrer,, San Jose State University,
4089245284, benedikt.harrer@sjsu.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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Virginia J. Flood
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Abstract:
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In this exploratory study, we identify and characterize productive physical intuitions undergraduate pre-service STEM teachers used to investigate and make sense of the curious behavior of a weighted wheel. Relying on everyday experience and ideas generated through their ongoing study of various scientific disciplines, students were able to make sense of balance, oscillation, and threshold – important concepts for a wide range of scientific contexts, from simple mechanics to complex dynamical systems.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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AAPTwm2018_PhysicalIntuitionsWeightedWheel_handout_sm.pdf
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