Teaching weight to explicitly address language ambiguities and conceptual difficulties
Language ambiguities in concept meanings can exacerbate student learning difficulties and conceptual understanding of physics concepts. This is especially true for the concept of “weight,” which has multiple meanings in both scientific and everyday usage. The term weight has been defined in several...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.010130 |