As a result of her research, Liping Ma developed the notion of profound understanding of fundamental mathematics (PUFM) as the kind of mathematical knowledge teachers should possess. She discusses this kind
What are the big ideas in function ?
Function is defined in many textbooks as a correspondence relationship from set X to Y such that for every x (element of X), there is one and only one y value in
To blog newbies
You may want to check out Blogineering.com, a new blog by my colleague Guillermo Bautista (author of Mathematics and Multimedia) and Riley Ayes. Blogineering is a site teaching the basics of
Assessing understanding via constructing test items
Assessing understanding of mathematics can also be done by asking students to write test items. Here’s my favorite assessment item. I gave this to a group of teachers. Possible answers/