Students' vizualisation of functions from secondary to tertiary level

Fabrice Vandebrouck (1) , Sévérine Leidwanger (2)

1 LDAR (EA_4434) - Laboratoire de Didactique André Revuz
2 IMJ-PRG (UMR_7586) - Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche

In this paper, we report a test which was proposed to students entering University (more than 500 students). The test was built to help teachers identify students' strength and weakness in some important mathematics topics, especially limits of functions. The test's analysis shows some specific abilities of students which surely can be used to introduce new knowledge involving the local perspective and formalism at the beginning of the university.

Mots clés: mathematics; functions; university students; activity; visualization; local perspective

Domaines: Education

Fabrice Vandebrouck, Sévérine Leidwanger. Students' vizualisation of functions from secondary to tertiary level. First conference of International Network for Didactic Research in University Mathematics, Mar 2016, Montpellier, France. ⟨hal-01337928⟩