Excerpt from Ed Dubinsky and Robin Wilson’ article, “High School Students’ Understanding of the Function Concept,” will be published in March 2013 issue of the Journal of Mathematical Behavior 32 (2013) 83 101. This review of the literature has described research taking place over the 51-year period from 1960 to 2011. It is interesting to note that while there has been considerable work in developing various theoretical perspectives and using them to report on and analyze the myriad of difficulties that students at a variety of ages, ranging from high school to college and including students at the higher ability levels, have in developing a rich understanding of the function concept, less attention has been paid to applying the theoretical analyses to developing pedagogical strategies for helping students overcome these difficulties as is done, for example by Ayers et al, (1988), Breidenbach et al. (1992), McGowen et al. (2000), and Reed (2007). It is not surprising, therefore that although there has been some progress, the conceptual difficulties observed more than 50 years ago are, for the most part, still with us today.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:36:08 +0000
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