A CLASSROOM NOTE: BAR CODE SCANNER AS A CANONICAL FUNCTION

In precalculus, several properties of functions of a single variable need to be presented and understood by students during the early course if they are going to understand the abstract parts of precalculus. Here, Sher presents bar code scanner reduced to the simplest and most significant form possi...

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Published in:Mathematics and computer education 2004-10, Vol.38 (3), p.265
Main Author: Sher, David B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bar codes
Calculus
Mathematical functions
Predictor Variables
Variables
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Summary:In precalculus, several properties of functions of a single variable need to be presented and understood by students during the early course if they are going to understand the abstract parts of precalculus. Here, Sher presents bar code scanner reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality to a mathematical relation such that each element of one set is associated with at least one element of another set.
ISSN:0730-8639