EDITOR: I disagree that most students will not use algebra in their lives. Every shopper is looking for the answer to the actual price when a sale is advertised as 15 percent, 20 percent or any ...

The purpose of all of the developmental mathematics courses is to support student success academically and beyond by advancing critical thinking and reasoning skills. Specifically in Algebra II, as a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Students see that geometric transformations—dilation and translation—correspond to algebraic parameters—m and b—in the familiar equation for a ...

This study is an attempt to analyze students' construction of function based problem solving methods in introductory algebra. It claims that for functions to be a main concept for learning school ...