Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
School
School of Education
RAS ID
43554
Abstract
This study investigates the analogies used by a sample of secondary mathematics teachers when they described the concept of function. The study is concerned with understanding what analogies were used by the participant teachers and conceptions of functions positioned in those analogies. Using examples from a set of responses to five open-ended questionnaire items, the article presents the main analogies found in the descriptions of the participant teachers and examines ways in which these are structurally mapped to function by applying Gentner’s structure-mapping theory of analogy. Among those discussed are the child–mother linkage and machine/factory analogies. Of interest is the predominance of illustrations that show a correspondence approach to functions (mappings and input-output machines), while a covariation approach is entirely absent. The article makes the case for using the concept of analogy as a tool in research on teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT).
DOI
10.1080/0020739X.2022.2032440
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology on 18 February 2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0020739X.2022.2032440
Hatisaru, V. (2022). Investigating secondary mathematics teachers’ analogies to function. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2022.2032440