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Download full textChin, Kin Eng; Pierce, Robyn – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
Undergraduate mathematics instructors often report that students make careless errors or have not previously learned key mathematical ideas and strategies. The purpose of this study is to explore evidence of an alternative explanation that at least some of these "errors" may result from students' application of conceptions developed in…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
