Local Instruction Theories at the University Level: An Example in a Linear Algebra Course

Andrea Cárcamo; Claudio Fuentealba; Diego Garzón

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Andrea Cárcamo ¹ ^* , Claudio Fuentealba ¹, Diego Garzón ²

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¹ Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Universidad Austral de Chile, CHILE² Instituto de Educación y Pedagogía, Universidad del Valle, COLOMBIA^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

In order to promote the design of innovative instructional activities at the Linear Algebra, we perform a design-based research project to explore how to teach Linear Algebra at the university level. In this article, we present the results of three cycles of a teaching experiment that we carried out to design, try out, and improve a local instruction theory (LIT) on the teaching of the concepts of spanning set and span in Linear Algebra with first-year engineering students. In a retrospective analysis, we looked for patterns in the data set of all the experiments, and we identified key learning moment of the students. Based on these patterns, we formulated a LIT to support the construction of the concepts of spanning set and span.

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emergent models
instructional design
linear algebra
local instruction theory

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2019, Volume 15, Issue 12, Article No: em1781

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Cárcamo, A., Fuentealba, C., & Garzón, D. (2019). Local Instruction Theories at the University Level: An Example in a Linear Algebra Course. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 15(12), em1781. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/108648

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Cárcamo A, Fuentealba C, Garzón D. Local Instruction Theories at the University Level: An Example in a Linear Algebra Course. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2019;15(12):em1781. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/108648

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Cárcamo A, Fuentealba C, Garzón D. Local Instruction Theories at the University Level: An Example in a Linear Algebra Course. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2019;15(12), em1781. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/108648

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Cárcamo, Andrea, Claudio Fuentealba, and Diego Garzón. "Local Instruction Theories at the University Level: An Example in a Linear Algebra Course". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2019 15 no. 12 (2019): em1781. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/108648

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Cárcamo, A., Fuentealba, C., and Garzón, D. (2019). Local Instruction Theories at the University Level: An Example in a Linear Algebra Course. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 15(12), em1781. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/108648

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Cárcamo, Andrea et al. "Local Instruction Theories at the University Level: An Example in a Linear Algebra Course". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 15, no. 12, 2019, em1781. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/108648