Bringing Reality into Calculus Classrooms: Mathematizing a Real-life Problem Simulated in a Virtual Environment

The study explores how students, who had completed the AP calculus course, mathematized the optimal navigation real-life problem simulated in the Second Life Virtual Environment. The particular research interest was to investigate whether/how students’ empirical activity in VE influences the way of...

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Main Authors: Olga V. Shipulina, David Harris Smith, Peter Liljedahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 2013-01-01
Series:International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP)
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Online Access:http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jep/article/view/2337