Geometrical and numerical strategies in students' functional reasoning

This paper reports results of a reaserch project on the reasoning processes used by students in handling numerical functions and interpreting Cartesian graphs. Functions are a central topic in the high school and college undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Many properties of numerical functions ar...

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Main Author: Ponte, João Pedro da (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/4553
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/4553