Informing Practice: A Hybrid Perspective on Functions

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Formal notions of function, which appear in middle school, are discussed in light of how teachers might complement the input-output notion with a covariation perspective.

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Edited by Amy Ellis, aellis1@education.wisc.edu, and Despina Stylianou, dstylianou@ccny.cuny.edu. Readers are encouraged to submit manuscripts through http://mtms.msubmit.net.

Contributor Notes

Eric Weber, eric.weber@oregonstate.edu, is an assistant professor of mathematics education at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. He is interested in student learning about functions and rates of change.

(Corresponding author is Weber eric.weber@oregonstate.edu)
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