I don't know of that research, no, but it does seem like there ought to be quite a bit of it!
I wish more teachers were like you. My high school physics teacher, who was one of the best and most thoughtful teachers I've ever known, and who taught me basically everything I know about physics/math pedagogy, was a stickler for thinking about whether one's answer was reasonable. He would give partial credit if you got a completely illogical answer and pointed out that it was illogical but that you couldn't figure out where you'd gone wrong.
Oh, ouch, trying to solve differntial equations and not knowing fractions! That sounds even more painful, or perhaps as painful, as trying to do physics without knowing algebra....
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Date: 2015-01-25 03:46 am (UTC)I wish more teachers were like you. My high school physics teacher, who was one of the best and most thoughtful teachers I've ever known, and who taught me basically everything I know about physics/math pedagogy, was a stickler for thinking about whether one's answer was reasonable. He would give partial credit if you got a completely illogical answer and pointed out that it was illogical but that you couldn't figure out where you'd gone wrong.
Oh, ouch, trying to solve differntial equations and not knowing fractions! That sounds even more painful, or perhaps as painful, as trying to do physics without knowing algebra....