Calculus Students’ Ideas About Functions: Identifying Opportunities to Support Teacher Learning

Laurie Overman Cavey; Patrick R. Lowenthal

Calculus Students’ Ideas About Functions: Identifying Opportunities to Support Teacher Learning

Laurie Overman Cavey
, Patrick R. Lowenthal

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We describe the first phase of a study aimed at developing video-based instructional modules for secondary mathematics teachers. We began by consulting the literature on figural pattern tasks (c.f. Rivera, 2010) and teachers’ ability to interpret student work (c.f. El Mouhayar & Jurdak, 2012). Interpreting student work on figural pattern tasks requires awareness of different problem solving strategies, such as recursive and constructive, and how students might use them with tasks that require different levels of generalization (El Mouhayar & Jurdak, 2012).

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Proceedings: Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016

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mathematical knowledge for teaching
algebra and algebraic thinking

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Mathematics

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