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Download full textTsamir, Pessia; Ovodenko, Regina – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper describes prospective secondary school mathematics teachers' images and definitions of inflection points. The data indicate that prospective teachers tended to regard f[prime](x)=0 and/or the location "where the graph bends" as necessary/sufficient conditions for inflection points. The solutions were based on previous…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Cognitive Processes
