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ERIC Number: EJ1235413
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1012-2346
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Social Science Students' Concept Images and Concept Definitions of Anti-Derivatives
Pythagoras, v40 n1 Article 484 2019
The purpose of the reported study was to investigate the social science students' concept images and concept definitions of anti-derivatives. Data were collected through asking students to answer 10 questions related to anti-derivatives and also by interviewing them. The theory of concept image and concept definition was used for data analysis. The results of the study show that the students' definitions of anti-derivatives were personal reconstructions of the formal definition. Their concept images were coherent only to a certain extent as there were some conceptions of some ideas that were at variance with those of the mathematical community. These were more evident when students solved problems in the algebraic representation. Some students did not know which integration or differentiation methods they should apply in solving the problems. The significance of such findings is to enable the mathematics educators to pay attention not only to the use of signs and symbols representing mathematical concepts but also to their semantics.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Lesotho
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