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Derginin Adı:
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The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
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Cilt:
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2013/14
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Sayı:
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3
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Makale Başlık:
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ASSESSING CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN MATHEMATICS: Using Derivative Function to Solve Connected Problems
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Makale Alternatif Dilde Başlık:
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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3.04.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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Open and distance education plays an important role in the actualization of cultural
goals as well as in societal developments. This is an independent teaching and learning
method for mathematics which forms the dynamic of scientific thinking. Distance
education is an important alternative to traditional teaching applications. These
contributions brought by technology enable students to participate actively in having
access to information and questioning it. Such an application increases students’
motivation and teaches how mathematics can be used in daily life. Derivative is a
mathematical concept which can be used in many areas of daily life.
The aim of this study is to enable the concept of derivatives to be understood well by
using the derivative function in the solution of various problems. It also aims at
interpreting difficulties theoretically in the solution of problems and determining
mistakes in terms of teaching methods. In this study, how various aspects of
derivatives are understood is emphasized. These aspects concern the explanation of
concepts and process, and also their application to certain concepts in physics.
Students’ depth of understanding of derivatives was analyzed based on two aspects of
understanding; theoretical analysis and contextual application. Follow-up interviews
were conducted with five students.
The results show that the students preferred to apply an algebraic symbolic aspect
instead of using logical meanings of function and its derivative. In addition, in relation
to how the graph of the derivative function affects the aspect of function, it was
determined that the students displayed low performance.
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