A network of three mutually overlapping intuitive ideas (less distance implies less time, bunched up means faster, faster implies less time) stabilizes students' initial thinking¶

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q2 i? Three intuitive knowledge elements connected through linguistic and conceptual overlap formed a network whose mutual relationships made the students' initial understanding self-sustaining. → Frank 2009

Evidence¶

Frank 2009¶

Frank, B. W. (2009). Multiple Conceptual Coherences in the Speed Tutorial: Micro-processes of Local Stability. https://eric.ed.gov

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Qualitative analysis of transcript episodes in which students described shorter strips as faster and reasoned that faster implies less time. The author argues "This network of ideas can be understood to exhibit stability through the mutual relationships among its parts," with words like shorter and faster carrying overlapping distance, time, and speed meanings.

"These three elements of intuitive knowledge–less distance implies less time, bunched up means faster, and faster implies less time– are all connected through their linguistic and conceptual overlap."

Discussion¶

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