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Designing to Provoke Disorienting Dilemmas: Transforming Preservice Teachers' Understanding of Function Using a Vending Machine Applet
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McCulloch, Allison; Lovett, Jennifer N.; Edgington, Cyndi – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate a function machine in the form of a Vending Machine applet as a means to motivate preservice teachers to examine their own understanding of the function concept. The applet was designed to purposefully problematize common misconceptions associated with the algebraic nature of typical function machines.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Computer Oriented Programs, Preservice Teacher Education