Designing a programming-based approach for modelling scientific phenomena

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-158

  Simpson, Gordon ^a   Hoyles, Celia ^a   Noss, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Communication; Computer; Conservation laws; Design; Group; Illuminative; Individual; Knowledge based; Mathematics; Modelling; One dimensional collisions; Programming; Qualitative; Secondary

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444421949     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2005.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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