Functions

Nancy Baxter, Ed Dubinsky and Gary Levin
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Nancy Baxter: Dickinson College, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Ed Dubinsky: Purdue University, Departments of Education and Mathematics
Gary Levin: Clarkson University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Chapter Chapter 4 in Learning Discrete Mathematics with ISETL, 1989, pp 163-223 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to help the student develop her or his concept of function. Early in a young person’s study of Mathematics, he or she may think of a function as nothing more than an expression or formula that sits, statically, on a piece of paper or on the blackboard. This is not a very powerful notion, and it is essential that the student develop a dynamic view of a function as a process that takes an object of some sort and transforms it into another object.

Keywords: Positive Integer; Real Number; Function Concept; State Diagram; Point Number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3592-7_4

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