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Calculus Students’ Ideas About Functions: Identifying Opportunities To Support Teacher Learning, Laurie Overman Cavey, Patrick R. Lowenthal

Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations

We describe the first phase of a study aimed at developing video-based instructional modules for secondary mathematics teachers. We began by consulting the literature on figural pattern tasks (c.f. Rivera, 2010) and teachers’ ability to interpret student work (c.f. El Mouhayar & Jurdak, 2012). Interpreting student work on figural pattern tasks requires awareness of different problem solving strategies, such as recursive and constructive, and how students might use them with tasks that require different levels of generalization (El Mouhayar & Jurdak, 2012).