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Investment Return Calculations and Senior School Mathematics
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Fitzherbert, Richard M.; Pitt, David G. W. – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2010
The methods for calculating returns on investments are taught to undergraduate level business students. In this paper, the authors demonstrate how such calculations are within the scope of senior school students of mathematics. In providing this demonstration the authors hope to give teachers and students alike an illustration of the power and the…
Descriptors: Student Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Undergraduate Students, Business Education
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on E-Learning (Lisbon, Portugal, July 20-22, 2017)
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Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed.; Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2017, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 20-22 July, 2017. This conference is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2017, 20-23 July, which had a total of 652 submissions.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Information Literacy
Keeping It Real, Keeping Them Interested and Keeping It in Their Minds
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Howley, Peter P. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2008
As part of many universities' Business degrees, students will undertake an introductory statistics course. Lecturers need to help these students appreciate and recognise the value of possessing quantitative skills and to learn and apply such skills. Three components to teaching that address these aims as well as the interdependence of these…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, College Instruction
Can Teachers Know Too Much?
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Wright, Bob; Stewart, Rita – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 1999
Describes the "Count Me In Too" project in New South Wales and provides some insight into the way children were assessed. Introduces the "Learning Framework in Number," a research-based framework for assessing and teaching early number concepts. (Contains 12 references.) (ASK)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries
Teachers' Responses to an Investigative Mathematics Syllabus: Their Goals and Practices.
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Norton, Stephen; McRobbie, Campbell J.; Cooper, Tom J. – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2002
Explores teachers' practices and relates them to their goals. Indicates that syllabus documents have influenced teachers' choices of teaching strategies and that most teachers had calculation-based goals for less able students and conceptual goals for more able students. Identifies teaching strategies and discusses the relationships between…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Course Descriptions, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Analysis of Student Beliefs in a Tertiary Preparatory Mathematics Course
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Carmichael, C.; Taylor, J. A. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology, 2005
Every year approximately 800 students enrol in the tertiary preparatory course TPP7181 at the University of Southern Queensland. Successful completion of this course will allow students to enrol in either further preparatory level mathematics courses or undergraduate study. For many of the students enrolled in this course, the study of mathematics…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Students