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This case study focuses on how a high school student, Laura, learned the meaning of the velocity sign. By moving a toy car she created many real-time graphs on a computer screen. The study strives to show that her learning was not just an acknowledgment of a rule, but a broad questioning and revision of her thinking about graphs and motion. Laura’s process exemplifies what is involved in the learning of a way of symbolizing situations of physical change.
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Nemirovsky, R. (1996). On Ways of Symbolizing: The Case of Laura and the Velocity Sign. In: Tinker, R.F. (eds) Microcomputer–Based Labs: Educational Research and Standards. NATO ASI Series, vol 156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61189-6_10
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