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"Classical-ish": Negotiating the boundary between classical and quantum particles
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Erin Ronayne Sohr, Ayush Gupta +1
Quantum mechanics can seem like a departure from everyday experience of the physical world, but constructivist theories assert that learners build new ideas from their existing one…
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'Because math': Epistemological stance or defusing social tension in QM?
Erin Ronayne Sohr, Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Ayush Gupta +1
In collaborative small-group work, physics students need to both manage social conflict and grapple with conceptual and epistemological differences. In this paper, we document seve…