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Identifier	Thesis 1854
Author	Sammann, Catherine
Title	The Effects of Integrating Algebra Two and Chemistry on Students' Comprehension of Functions
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2006
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The purpose of this study was to determine if integrating a unit on functions would benefit students. Previous studies have shown that integrating science and mathematics increases students' understanding of certain topics in science. Typically, science and math integration has been done across an entire curriculum that requires at least one school year to implement. This study set out to see if integrating just two topics, or two units of study, would have any effect. Specifically, the topics were gas laws in chemistry and functions in algebra two. Would teaching gas laws as functions help students understand both concepts better than teaching them as separate entities? The experimental group for the study included 32 juniors at a small rural high school in New England. All of the students were enrolled in Algebra Two and Chemistry simultaneously. The control group consisted of 25 juniors at the same school who had been taught functions in a "traditional" manner the previous year. A two-sample T-test for the difference in mean 8th grade CMT scores of both groups showed that there was no significant difference at the 0.05 level. (The same test was performed for the students' PSAT scores and although no significant difference was found between the two groups, several students in the control group had not taken the PSAT, so the CMT scores were used as well to include more of the students.) The experimental group received instruction on functions in algebra class and the concept of functionality was stressed in chemistry class. Several experiments were performed to demonstrate the application of functions. At the end of the unit, the same two assessments on functions were given to the experimental group that the control group had taken the year before. The results suggest that integrating gas laws and functions is beneficial to students. For the first assessment, the results showed an increase in the mean score of approximately 9 points, which is statistically significant at the 0.05 level. The second assessment showed no significant difference in the mean. A questionnaire was given to the students at the end of the unit, and it provided positive feedback for the teachers. It is the recommendation of the researcher that gas laws and functions continue to be taught as an integrated unit. Other topics could be added as planning time permits.
Subject	Algebra -- Study and teaching (Secondary) Chemistry -- Study and teaching (Secondary) Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Department	Department of Mathematical Sciences
Advisor	Gould, S. Louise
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734079
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