University of Maryland, Dept. of Physics
College Park, MD 20742
erickuo (at) umd.edu
About Me:
I graduated in 2007 from Brandeis University with a degrees in Math and Physics, and a minor in secondary education. After graduation I taught high school physics for a year in Massachusetts. I'm currently a fourth year graduate student in the physics education group.
What I'm Working On:
- How students blend conceptual reasoning with mathematical equations in physics.
- How disciplinary differences in purpose and context of approximations can lead to differences in how students approach approximation problems in math and physics.
- How classical transfer is insufficient for fully understanding certain episodes of student reasoning
- Thinking about how to explain to students (in a reasonable way) why the slit width is less than the wavelength, but the slit distance needs to be greater than the wavelength for double slit diffraction.
The Latest Thing:
How Small is Small? Student Reasoning with Approximations in Introductory Calculus and Physics
Champney, D., Kuo, E., & Little, A.
TRUSE mini-grant presentation
Conference on Transforming Research in Undergraduate STEM Education 2012, St. Paul, MN.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign
them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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