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Inverse function: Pre-service teachers' techniques and meanings

Researchers have argued teachers and students are not developing connected meanings for function inverse, thus calling for a closer examination of teachers' and students' inverse function meanings. Responding to this call, we characterize 25 pre-service teachers' inverse function mean...

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Published in:Educational studies in mathematics 2018-01, Vol.97 (1), p.93-109
Main Authors: Paoletti, Teo, Stevens, Irma E., Hobson, Natalie L. F., Moore, Kevin C., LaForest, Kevin R.
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Education
Frequencies
Graphical representations
Interviews
Inverse functions
Knowledge Level
Learning Activities
Mathematical Concepts
Mathematics
Mathematics Education
Mathematics Instruction
Mathematics teachers
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Student teachers
Students
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Teachers
Teaching Methods
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