Inverse Functions: What Our Teachers Didn't Tell Us
Our teachers misled us, but we don't blame them. They were only teaching what was in the textbook. And as new teachers—because of our lack of experience and our reliance on the textbook—we continued to teach the procedure we had learned as students. It wasn't until we began writing textbooks ourselves (Wilson 2007; Wilson et al. forthcoming) that we were compelled to confront the inverse function falsehoods in our intellectual past. These contradictions were difficult to detect because they were broadly accepted and perpetuated in widely used textbooks
Contributor Notes
Frank C. Wilson, frank.wilson@cgcmail.maricopa.edu, Scott Adamson, s.adamson@cgcmail.maricopa.edu, and Trey Cox, trey.cox@cgcmail.maricopa.edu, teach students algebra through differential equations at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Chandler, Arizona.
