Fostering engineering freshmen’s shifts of attention by using Matlab LiveScript for solving mathematical tasks

We designed an experimental path including a summative assessment phase, where engineering freshmen are involved in solving mathematical tasks by using Matlab LiveScripts. We analyzed the students’ answers to a questionnaire about their perceived impact of the use of Matlab on their way to solve mat...

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Published inTeaching Mathematics and Computer Science Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14
Main Authors Albano, Giovannina, Telloni, Agnese Ilaria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Debrecen University of Debrecen 12.06.2024
Subjects
Data Analysis
Engineering
Engineering education
Hypotheses
Impact analysis
Learning
Linear algebra
Mathematics
Mathematics Education
Matlab
Problem solving
Questionnaires
Research Methodology
Students
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Summary:We designed an experimental path including a summative assessment phase, where engineering freshmen are involved in solving mathematical tasks by using Matlab LiveScripts. We analyzed the students’ answers to a questionnaire about their perceived impact of the use of Matlab on their way to solve mathematical tasks. The main result is that students show shifts of attention from computations to other aspects of problem solving, moving from an operational to a structural view of mathematics. Subject Classification: 97U70, 97H60
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ISSN:1589-7389
2676-8364
DOI:10.5485/TMCS.2024.13299