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Hauger, Garnet Smith – 1997
Several studies have shown the difficulties students encounter in making sense of situations involving rate of change. This study concerns how students discover errors and refine their knowledge when working with rate of change. The part of the study reported here concerns the responses of four precalculus students to a task which asked them to…
Descriptors: Calculus, Error Correction, Graphs, Higher Education