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Dunham, Penelope H.; Osborne, Alan – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1991
The difficulties and misconceptions that many students experience when learning to visualize graphs of functions are discussed. Specifically, the inability to make accurate connections between symbolic and graphical representations, the lack of understanding about scale and scaling, and the confusion caused by transformations are examined with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
