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http://dx.doi.org/10.7468/jksmee.2019.33.3.319

An Analysis of Understanding Level of High School Students Shown in Trigonometric Functions  

Lee, Yu Bin (Ulsan Sciences High School)
Cho, Cheong Soo (Yeungnam University)
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Communications of Mathematical Education / v.33, no.3, 2019 , pp. 319-334 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, using the tasks related trigonometric functions, the degree of high school students' understanding of the function concept was examined through the level of Hitt(1998). First, the degree of the students' understanding was classified by level, then the concept understanding was reclassified by the process or the object. As a result, high school students' concept understanding showed incompleteness in three stages. It was possible to know that the process in the interpretation of the graph is the main perspective, and the operation of algebraic representation is regarded as important. Based on these results, it seems necessary to study the teaching-learning method which can understand trigonometric functions from various perspectives. It seems necessary to study a lesson model that can reach function concept's understanding level 5 that maintains consistency between problem solving and representation system.
Keywords
trigonometric function; the degree of levels of understanding; representation; process and object;
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