Journal on Mathematics Education (JME)
Vol 10, No 1 (2019)

EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION FLEXIBILITY OF DOMAIN AND RANGE OF FUNCTION

Tian Abdul Aziz (Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA)
Meyta Dwi Kurniasih (Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jan 2019

Abstract

This study attempts to analyze pre-service secondary mathematics teachers’ flexibility of external representations of domain and range of functions. To reach the purpose, a task consisted of thirty question items were designed. Participants of the study were thirty-eight Indonesian pre-service secondary mathematics teachers attending mathematics education department at one private university in Jakarta, Indonesia. Based on the analysis participants written responses, this paper revealed participants’ difficulties in providing a proper and consistent definition of the concept of domain and range of functions. We also disclosed the participants’ lack of flexibility in doing translation among representations under the concept of domain and range of function. In general, participants written responses to the task did not provide evidence of a solid understanding of domain and range. There are several implications of these findings offered for secondary mathematics teacher education’s program.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jme

Publisher

Subject

Education Mathematics

Description

Journal on Mathematics Education (IndoMS-JME) is peer-refereed open-access international journal which has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of mathematics education. This journal is founded under collaboration between Indonesian Mathematical Society ...