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Quinn, Robert J.; Waddell, Glenn, Jr.; Gallaher, Daniel – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2021
The authors present mathematics problems related to the packaging of sporting goods which they used to motivate and engage their students in the USA. This article reports on a series of questions/problems that were explored in groups by the students in a college class designed for sophomores, as part of a program to prepare them to be teachers at…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Skills, Problem Based Learning
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Rudziewicz, Michael; Bossé, Michael J.; Marland, Eric S.; Rhoads, Gregory S. – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2017
Humans possess a remarkable ability to recognise both simple patterns such as shapes and handwriting and very complex patterns such as faces and landscapes. To investigate one small aspect of human pattern recognition, in this study participants position lines of "best fit" to two-dimensional scatter plots of data. The study investigates…
Descriptors: Visualization, Pattern Recognition, Graphs, Data