Comparison of students' understanding of functions in classes following English and Israeli national curricula

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dc.article.end-page272en_ZA
dc.article.start-page255en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWatson, A
dc.contributor.authorAyalon, M
dc.contributor.authorLerman, S
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-12T13:39:03Z
dc.date.available2021-08-12T13:39:03Z
dc.date.issued2017-12-02
dc.description.abstractThis paper arises from a study of how concepts related to understanding functions develop for students across the years of secondary/high school, using small samples from two different curricula systems: England and Israel. We used a survey consisting of function tasks developed in collaboration with teachers from both curriculum systems. We report on 120 higher achieving students, 10 from each of English and Israeli, 12–18 years old. Iterative and comparative analysis identified similarities and differences in students’ responses and we conjecture links between curriculum, enactment, task design, and students’ responses. Towards the end of school, students from both curriculum backgrounds performed similarly on most tasks but approached these by different routes, such as intuitive or formal and with different understandings, including correspondence and covariational approaches to functions.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMS2021en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWatson Anne, Ayalon Michal, Lerman Stephen (2018). Comparison of students' understanding of functions in classes following English and Israeli national curricula Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019, 97 (3) pp. 255 - 272.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn00131954
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/31494
dc.journal.issue3en_ZA
dc.journal.linkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-017-9798-8en_ZA
dc.journal.titleEducational Studies in Mathematicsen_ZA
dc.journal.volume97en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlandsen_ZA
dc.rightsCopyright © 2017, Springer Science Business Media B.V., part of Springer Natureen_ZA
dc.schoolWits School of Educationen_ZA
dc.subjectCurriculumen_ZA
dc.subjectFunctionsen_ZA
dc.subjectStudents’ understanding of functionsen_ZA
dc.titleComparison of students' understanding of functions in classes following English and Israeli national curriculaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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