Browsing by Subject "Concept image"
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How Students Conceive Function: a Triarchic Conceptual-Semiotic Model of the Understanding of a Complex Concept
(Information Age Publishing, 2006)This study explores conceptions for function amongst 164-second year students of the Department of Education at the University of Cyprus and their relationship with students' abilities in dealing with tasks involving ...
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Student perspectives on the relationship between a curve and its tangent in the transition from Euclidean Geometry to Analysis
(Routledge, 2008)The tangent line is a central concept in many mathematics and science courses. In this paper we describe a model of students' thinking - concept images as well as ability in symbolic manipulation - about the tangent line ...