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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Undergraduate Mathematics"”.
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Homework Journaling in Undergraduate Mathematics
… years, journal writing has become more common in mathematics classes at all age levels. However, there has been very little empirical research about journal writing in college mathematics (Speer, Smith, & Horvath, 2010), particularly concerning the relationship between journal writing in college …
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Connecting teaching practice to student efficacy in undergraduate mathematics
… aspects of the instructional environment in six undergraduate math classes. Student surveys indicated significant differences in mean efficacy between classes, as well as significant differences in student perceptions of teacher behavior between the efficacy groups. Findings from observations of …
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How Do Undergraduate Mathematics Faculty Learn To Teach Online?
… the training that faculty receive to teach undergraduate mathematics courses online and the effectiveness of that training. An online survey was distributed to 64 faculty who taught undergraduate mathematics courses online. In responding to the survey, faculty supplied information about the …
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Exploring the experiences and persistence of women in undergraduate mathematics and statistics programs
… STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) programs is low, and of the few who enter these programs, research shows they are at least 1.5 times more likely to leave the field than their male peers (Ellis et al., 2016). Various factors have been identified as reasons why women …
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Students’ Experiences Of Studying Undergraduate Mathematics: An Investigation Of Approach, Support And Identity
This thesis explores one group of undergraduate mathematics students’ experiences throughout their three year degree course, to gain a better understanding of why some students’ attitudes to mathematics change during this period. Research by the "Students Experiences of Undergraduate Mathematics" …
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Undergraduate Mathematics Education Students' Understanding of Proof by Contradiction and Proof by Contraposition
… yet challenging for students, particularly undergraduate mathematics students, and are often perceived as less convincing and explanatory than direct proof (DP). While several factors have been identified as contributing to students’ difficulties and perceptions, further research in this …
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Students' engagement with technology-enhanced resources in first year non-specialist undergraduate mathematics modules
While students undertaking first-year undergraduate mathematics modules report using technology-enhanced resources (YouTube, Khan Academy, Wolfram Alpha) for their studies, and lecturers invest time and effort into developing such resources using tools such as GeoGebra and Matlab, there has been …
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Impact of Whiteness on Undergraduate Mathematics Identity Scale: Theoretical Foundation, Scale Development, and Validation
Background: Historically, mathematics has been considered a race and gender-neutral subject. More recently, scholars are using critical, conceptual lenses to interrogate race and gender inequities in mathematics teaching and learning spaces. One such lens is the Framework for Understanding …
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The Other Calculus: a Survey of the Calculus of Finite Differences
… of Finite Differences is a fascinating field of mathematics which is easily accessible to an undergraduate mathematics major. This paper attempts to present a broad survey of results from this field which show its richness, without appealing to deep results in analysis. Topics covered include …
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Error Correcting Codes and the Human Genome.
… can provide a teaching enrichment activity for undergraduate mathematics.</p>
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Instructors' Orientation on Mathematical Meaning
… are we doing this?", etc. when speaking about mathematics. If we take this as a question about 'meaningfulness', how can instructors respond and how do they even understand the terms 'meaningful' and 'meaning'? My dissertation looked at how college instructors see their instruction as …
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Design considerations in manufacturing composite conductors: An exposition of Percolation Theory
… Theory, directed to the audience of beginning undergraduate mathematics students, though this can include gifted high school students. The vehicle by which the theory is taught is that of problem solving. The reader of the dissertation is invited into a web of mathematical exploration and …
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Mathematical explorations using logo: a training model for perspective elementary teachers
… that many elementary school teachers dislike mathematics and have a fear of teaching the subject. To overcome this problem of poor mathematics teachers in the elementary schools we need to focus on our teacher training programs. This paper presents an alternative model for the lab portion of …
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STUDENTS' DEVELOPMENT IN PROOF: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY
<p>Despite importance of teaching proof in any undergraduate mathematics program, many students have difficulties with proof (Dreyfus, 1999; Harel & Sowder, 2003; Selden & Selden, 2003; Weber, 2004). In this qualitative case study, nine undergraduate students were each interviewed once every two …
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STUDENTS' DEVELOPMENT IN PROOF: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY
<p>Despite importance of teaching proof in any undergraduate mathematics program, many students have difficulties with proof (Dreyfus, 1999; Harel & Sowder, 2003; Selden & Selden, 2003; Weber, 2004). In this qualitative case study, nine undergraduate students were each interviewed once every two …
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Proof Processes of Novice Mathematics Proof Writers
… studies have shown that a large portion of undergraduate mathematics students have difficulties constructing, understanding, and validating proofs (Martin and Harel, 1989; Coe and Ruthven, 1994; Moore, 1994; Baker, 1996; Mingus and Grassl, 1999; Knuth, 2002; Weber, 2001, 2003). However, …
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Proof Processes of Novice Mathematics Proof Writers
… studies have shown that a large portion of undergraduate mathematics students have difficulties constructing, understanding, and validating proofs (Martin and Harel, 1989; Coe and Ruthven, 1994; Moore, 1994; Baker, 1996; Mingus and Grassl, 1999; Knuth, 2002; Weber, 2001, 2003). However, …
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Understanding Student Mathematical Ways of Knowing: Relationships Among Mathematical Anxiety, Attitude Toward Learning Math, Gender, Ethnicity, and Separate and Connected Ways of Knowing
… ways of knowing within the context of the mathematics classroom. Participants were 88 student volunteers enrolled in undergraduate mathematics classes at an open admissions technical college in the southeastern United States. Survey data consisted of demographic self-report items, Likert …
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