TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching physics in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education contexts with interactive computational modelling
AU - Neves, Rui Gomes
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147304/PT#
UID/SOC/04647/2019
PY - 2019/7/24
Y1 - 2019/7/24
N2 - Knowledge about mathematical physics models and scientific computation methods is of fundamental importance for contemporary modelling processes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Physics teaching in STEM education should thus envision the integration of learning sequences with computational physics that ensure epistemological and cognitive balance between experimentation, computation and theory, and foster the development of meaningful knowledge in physics, mathematics and scientific computation, in ways appropriate to the different STEM contexts. We discuss a teaching approach where such learning sequences involve interactive engagement activities with computational modelling designed to (1) explore various kinds of modelling, from exploratory to expressive modelling, (2) introduce scientific computation progressively without requiring prior development of a working knowledge of programming, (3) generate and resolve cognitive conflicts in the understanding of physics concepts and mathematical methods, and (4) develop performative competency in the different and complementary representations of the mathematical models of physics. To illustrate we describe a learning sequence about rotational dynamics created for introductory physics students of STEM university courses.
AB - Knowledge about mathematical physics models and scientific computation methods is of fundamental importance for contemporary modelling processes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Physics teaching in STEM education should thus envision the integration of learning sequences with computational physics that ensure epistemological and cognitive balance between experimentation, computation and theory, and foster the development of meaningful knowledge in physics, mathematics and scientific computation, in ways appropriate to the different STEM contexts. We discuss a teaching approach where such learning sequences involve interactive engagement activities with computational modelling designed to (1) explore various kinds of modelling, from exploratory to expressive modelling, (2) introduce scientific computation progressively without requiring prior development of a working knowledge of programming, (3) generate and resolve cognitive conflicts in the understanding of physics concepts and mathematical methods, and (4) develop performative competency in the different and complementary representations of the mathematical models of physics. To illustrate we describe a learning sequence about rotational dynamics created for introductory physics students of STEM university courses.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85069959481&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1063/1.5114426
DO - 10.1063/1.5114426
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069959481
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 4
BT - International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, ICNAAM 2018
A2 - Simos, Theodore
A2 - Tsitouras, Charalambos
PB - AIP - American Institute of Physics
CY - Rhodes, Greece
T2 - International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2018, ICNAAM 2018
Y2 - 13 September 2018 through 18 September 2018
ER -