In support of efforts to foreground functions as central objects of study in algebra, this study provides evidence of how secondary students use trigonometric functions in contextual tasks. The author ...

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Harmonic analysis occupies a central position in modern mathematical analysis by providing the tools to express complex functions as superpositions of simpler sinusoidal components via the Fourier ...

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