Comparison of Student Reasoning of Partial Derivatives Before and After the Instruction

Description

As a part of a broader project that aims to investigate students’ mathematical understanding in physics, this study explores how students understand the partial derivatives of divergence and curl of vector field diagrams. Students are asked to draw vector field diagrams for the given partial derivative before the instruction. After the instruction they have asked to find the sign of the partial derivative of a certain vector field plot. Student difficulties finding partial derivatives of divergence and curl of vector field diagrams before the instruction and after the instruction will be compared.

Period	01 Jul 2025
Event title	GIREP-EPEC 2025 Conference
Event type	Conference
Location	Leiden , NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International