TY - JOUR
T1 - Mathematical help-seeking
T2 - observing how undergraduate students use the Internet to cope with a mathematical task
AU - Aguilar, Mario Sánchez
AU - Puga, Danelly Susana Esparza
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, FIZ Karlsruhe.
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - We report on a study focused on identifying how undergraduate students make use of the Internet as a source of help to solve their mathematical queries. In particular, with the help of monitoring software, we observe how a group of engineering students use the Internet to solve a mathematical task related to the concept of definite integral, and we produce a characterization of their help-seeking behaviors. We observed that students manifest instrumental help-seeking behaviors mostly associated with the procedural items of the task (such as solving a definite integral), although there were executive help-seeking manifestations associated with the declarative questions (such as providing definitions). There was a general pattern of behavior manifested by the students who participated in the study; this pattern was dominated by the use of search engines and keywords to identify sources of mathematical help.
AB - We report on a study focused on identifying how undergraduate students make use of the Internet as a source of help to solve their mathematical queries. In particular, with the help of monitoring software, we observe how a group of engineering students use the Internet to solve a mathematical task related to the concept of definite integral, and we produce a characterization of their help-seeking behaviors. We observed that students manifest instrumental help-seeking behaviors mostly associated with the procedural items of the task (such as solving a definite integral), although there were executive help-seeking manifestations associated with the declarative questions (such as providing definitions). There was a general pattern of behavior manifested by the students who participated in the study; this pattern was dominated by the use of search engines and keywords to identify sources of mathematical help.
KW - Internet-based help-seeking
KW - Mathematical help-seeking
KW - Undergraduate students
KW - YouTube
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077565384&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11858-019-01120-1
DO - 10.1007/s11858-019-01120-1
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85077565384
SN - 1863-9690
VL - 52
SP - 1003
EP - 1016
JO - ZDM - Mathematics Education
JF - ZDM - Mathematics Education
IS - 5
ER -