Question

In the field of education, teaching students to solve math problems is an example of what kind of function?

Answer 1

That would be manifest function.
The manifest function of education has to do with the educations role in the society mainly in how education helps social development and social interaction with other members of the society.  There are six manifest functions of education according to Javier and his associates and they are the integration into political social sphere and advancing change, placing an individual into society, interaction with other society members that is socialization, social control, the transmission of culture.