吉田 知世
Reconsidering Mathematics Instruction of Function from a Psychological Perspective:
Investigation of Developmental Process of Understanding Function Concept in Elementary School
Children and Implication for Educational Practice
Tomoyo Yoshida
April,2022
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the formation process of function concepts in elementary school children.
The subjects were 313 elementary school children from third to sixth grades. Two kinds of tasks were administered, finding
the concret value and explaining the relation between two variables. The results showed that the function concept formation
was progressed before learning about function in elementary school and moreover it was progressed because of learning
about function, other contents, or their everyday ecperience. Concretely, the understanding about variables which is one of
the important point of function concept was progressed and the mathematical knowledge was combined with other concret
daily knowledge which is relateted in each problem situation.
