Connecting Research to Teaching: Kinematics and Graphs: Students' Difficulties and CBLs
Patricia Hale · Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12 · 2000
In a typical course that covers the concepts of functions and graphs, the teacher might use a graph to represent the acceleration of a moving object. After drawing a simple graph for an object with constant acceleration of –0.5 m/s2, she then asks the class, “If the object—a car or person perhaps—has an initial velocity of –2m/s, describe the velocity of the object.”