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Dr. Schermerhorn's work was published in American Physical Society Journals

The Engineering Science and Physics Department faculty, Dr. Benjamin Schermerhorn, had work was published in American Physical Society Journals(APS): Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic Blending.

This work presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the way that students work with, construct, and interpret equations in STEM disciplines. Leaning on the idea of mathematics as a language, linguistics frameworks and incorporated to connect the ideas that students have within a given context to the way those ideas are given symbolic form in equations (and further mathematical representations). 

Christopher Kumar
Engineering Science and Physics
10/27/2023