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Cho, Peter; Nagle, Courtney – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
This study extends past research on students' understanding of slope by analyzing college students' mistakes on routine tasks involving slope. We conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of students' mistakes to extract information regarding slope conceptualizations described in prior research. Results delineate procedural proficiencies and…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, College Students, Error Correction, Error Patterns
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Bossé, Michael J.; Adu-Gyamfi, Kwaku; Chandler, Kayla – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2014
Understanding how students translate between mathematical representations is of both practical and theoretical importance. This study examined students' processes in their generation of symbolic and graphic representations of given polynomial functions. The purpose was to investigate how students perform these translations. The result of the study…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Cognitive Processes, Student Behavior, Mathematics Education