Peer reviewed
Direct linkERIC Number: EJ1122194
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Dec
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
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Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel
Johnson, Heather Lynn; Hornbein, Peter; Azeem, Sumbal
Mathematics Teacher, v110 n5 p344-351 Dec 2016
The authors provide a dynamic Ferris wheel computer activity that teachers can use as an instructional tool to help students investigate functions. They use a student's work to illustrate how students can use relationships between quantities to further their thinking about functions.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Computer Simulation, Animation, Grade 9, Secondary School Mathematics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Grade 9; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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