Addressing Students' Difficulties with the Concept of Function: Applying Graphing Calculators and a Model of Conceptual Change.

Adams, Thomasenia Lott

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ERIC Number: EJ554535

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Addressing Students' Difficulties with the Concept of Function: Applying Graphing Calculators and a Model of Conceptual Change.

Adams, Thomasenia Lott

Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, v19 n2 p43-57 Spr 1997

Presents a study designed to explore whether a student's use of the graphing calculator during instruction will affect their concept of function, how students' participation in a conceptual change assignment affects their concept of function, and how the graphing calculator and the conceptual change assignment interact with one another to influence concept formation. (DDR)

Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Curriculum, Concept Formation, Functions (Mathematics), Graphing Calculators, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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