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ERIC Number: ED606939
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 9
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Preservice Teachers' Understanding of Two-Variable Inequalities: APOS Theory
Moon, Kyunghee
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (41st, St. Louis, MO, Nov 14-17, 2019)
This study investigated preservice secondary mathematics teachers' difficulties with and understanding of graphs of two-variable inequalities with the lens of the APOS theory. The analysis showed that most teachers understood inequality graphs as actions, at best, and used informal rules to construct graphs. They also had difficulty justifying graphs, such as overgeneralization of linear inequality graphs, lack of understanding of the meaning of solutions and the Cartesian Connection, and inability to transfer algebraic/verbal to geometric rays. This study suggests two methods for the visualization of inequality graphs, which uses the concepts of variable and parameter. [For the complete proceedings, see ED606556.]
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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