Browsing by Author "Martinez Ortega, Minerva"

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    Making Meaning of Periodic Functions through Body Movements
    (University of Calgary, 2017-05) Martinez Ortega, Minerva; Preciado Babb, Armando Paulino; Velasco, Hugo Rogelio Mejia; Werklund School of Education
    We report high school students' meaning making process of the sinusoidal function when engaged in a dynamic activity based on body movements. Using a distance sensor connected to graphing software, students were asked to reproduce a sinusoidal function. We explain how technology facilitated students’ understanding of this function and its parameters. We also report students' difficulties in attempting to generate this graph, and the implications for understanding periodic phenomena, commonly studied and applied in science and engineering.