%0 Journal Article
%T Bringing Reality into Calculus Classrooms: Mathematizing a Real-life Problem Simulated in a Virtual Environment
%A Olga V. Shipulina
%A David Harris Smith
%A Peter Liljedahl
%J International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy
%D 2013
%I International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP), Kassel University Press
%R 10.3991/ijep.v3i1.2337
%X The study explores how students, who had completed the AP calculus course, mathematized the optimal navigation real-life problem simulated in the Second Life Virtual Environment. The particular research interest was to investigate whether/how students¡¯ empirical activity in VE influences the way of their mathematizing.
%K Calculus
%K Realistic Mathematics Education
%K Virtual Environment
%U http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jep/article/view/2337