10/28/2023
Congratulations to Dr. Ben!
Dr. Schermerhorn's work was published in American Physical Society Journals
Dr. Benjamin Schermerhorn, a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Science and Physics, had work was published in American Physical Society Journals(APS): Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic Blending.
This work presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the way that students work with, construct, and interpret equations in STEM disciplines. Leaning on the idea of mathematics as a language, linguistics frameworks and incorporated to connect the ideas that students have within a given context to the way those ideas are given symbolic form in equations (and further mathematical representations).
Link to the publication:
The symbolic blending model can be used to analyze students' mathematical sense-making when constructing equations in upper-division physics.
