@proceedings {398,
	title = {Enhancing Functional Thinking Using the Computer for Representational Transfer},
	journal = {Proceedings of CERME 6},
	year = {2009},
	address = {Lyon (France)},
	abstract = {<p>
	The area of functional thinking is complex and has many facets. There are several\&nbsp;studies that describe the specific difficulties of functional thinking. They show that the\&nbsp;main difficulties are the transfer between the various representations of functions,\&nbsp;e.g. graph, words, table, real situation or formula, and the dynamic view of\&nbsp;functional dependencies (process concept of a function). Interactive Geometry\&nbsp;Software allows the visualization of the dynamic aspect of functional dependencies\&nbsp;simultaneously in different representations and offers the opportunity to experiment\&nbsp;with them. The author presents and discusses the potential of two interactive learning\&nbsp;activities that focus on the dynamic aspect of functional thinking in a special way.\&nbsp;Some preliminary results from a first adoption of the activities in class are presented.\&nbsp;Resulting research questions and plans for further research are stated.</p>
},
	keywords = {empirical study, Functional thinking, Interactive Geometry Software, Interactive learning activity, representational transfer},
	author = {Andrea Hoffkamp}
}
