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Cho, Peter; Moore-Russo, Deborah – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
To understand the mathematical concept of function, students must understand certain subconcepts, such as domain and range. Many researchers have studied students' understanding of functions, but no study has focused on how students come to understand the domain and range for the graphs of functions. In this study, we identified four common…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts
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Mofolo-Mbokane, Batseba; Engelbrecht, Johann; Harding, Ansie – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2013
The study aims to identify areas of difficulty in learning about volumes of solids of revolution (VSOR) at a Further Education and Training college in South Africa. Students' competency is evaluated along five skill factors which refer to knowledge skills required to succeed in performing tasks relating to applications of the definite integral, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometry, Difficulty Level, Graphs