Browsing Research Outputs (Mathematics Education) by Subject "APOS"

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From Human Activity to Conceptual Understanding of the Chain

Jojo, Zingiswa; MAHARAJ, ANESHKUMAR; Brijlall, Deonarain (REDIMAT- Journal ofResearch in Mathematics Education, 2013)

This article reports on a study which investigated first year university engineering students’ construction of the definition of the concept of the chain rule in differential calculus at a University of Technology in ...
Reflective Abstraction and Mathematics Education: The Genetic Decomposition of the Chain Rule-Work in Progress

Jojo, Zingiswa; MAHARAJ, ANESHKUMAR; Brijlall, Deonarain (US-China Education Review, 2012)

Students have experienced difficulty in understanding and using the chain rule. This study aims at assisting the students to understand and apply the chain rule and thus inform the author’s teaching for future learning of ...
Schema development for the chain rule: A South African case study

Jojo, Zingiswa; MAHARAJ, ANESHKUMAR; Brijlall, Deonarain (SAJHE, 2013)

This article reports on the use of the Action-Process-Objects-Schema (APOS) theory as a theoretical framework to investigate first-year students’ understanding of the chain rule at a University of Technology in South ...

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