Linear Algebra Teaching and Learning: Visualization - Softcover

Dogan-Dunlap, Hamide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3639089944 ISBN 13: 9783639089943

Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The book presents the findings of our work that investigated the effects of visual representations on learning and teaching of abstract concepts. Our work compared two first year linear algebra classes; one is traditional group and the other is experimental group who used the geometric representations of basic abstract linear algebra concepts. We documented differences in student understanding of vector space concepts, and consequently, evaluated the strength and weakness of both approaches. The experimental group performed significantly better than the traditional group in tasks involving only conceptual knowledge. The most noticeable differences in understanding were found in applying basic vector space concepts to linear transformations, and in finding bases for subspaces by recognizing vectors as the objects of subspaces. No significant evidence was found to support the belief that the experimental group performed less well than the traditional group in questions that required procedural knowledge.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hamide Dogan-Dunlap Hamide Dogan-Dunlap is an Associate Professor of mathematics at UTEP. Her primary research interest is on undergraduate mathematics education with particular attention given to abstract thinking in upper division mathematics courses such as linear algebra and analysis

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3639089944
• ISBN 13: 9783639089943
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 116
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