How do students learn to apply their mathematical knowledge to interpret graphs in physics?

Research in Science Education

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-267

  Woolnough, Jim ^a  

^a Dickson College   (Canada)

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EID: 5544323436     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02461633     Document Type: Article

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