APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Priming the Compulsion to Calculate
- Alyssa Lawson
California State University, Los Angeles - Brittany Ayala
California State University, Los Angeles - Destiny Rodriguez
California State University, Los Angeles - Ji Son
California State University, Los Angeles
Abstract
The compulsion to calculate (CTC), jumping to procedures to solve a problem without adequate consideration for the problem, hinders students from understanding and transfer. The current study found that CTC has an ‘inertia’ – if prior problems have activated CTC, then students continue to blindly apply procedures in subsequent problems.
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