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- Title
Interpretación del lenguaje simbólico de la física: Las "lecturas" de los estudiantes.
- Authors
Wainmaier, C.; Fleisner, A.
- Abstract
Formal resources -mathematical and logical- are vital to the analysis and description of nature, but its use requires consideration of the substantial differences between formal and factual statements. In this paper, we propose to thinking deeply about the students' difficulties in understanding and managing language of physics. We discuss some students limitations, linked to the interpretation of symbolic language used to formalize statements of discipline, and suggest some implications for teaching. We understand that not only the complexity of a new language and its formalization, but also the separation usually presents the duo concept-concept formalization, creating difficulties for students. This difficulty is, among others, related to the inability to use appropriately in physics classes terms of natural language, also used in the language of physics, but with different meaning and reference. We argue that: the links between technical language that uses physics, mathematical structures and experimental schemes, serve to describe, explain and define the physics subject of study, the world to witch it refers and the tools through which it approach. Therefore, we consider clearly establishing such links, will approach the students (and teachers) to a better understanding of the models and theories as well as a better understanding of definitions and laws of physics and the substantial differences between them.
- Publication
Latin-American Journal of Physics Education, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1870-9095
- Publication type
Article