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da Fonseca, Vilmar Gomes; Henriques, Ana Cláudia Correia Batalha – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
The literature emphasizes the interest and need to learn the concept of continuity with understanding, although this meaning it is not consensual nor specified how it may emerge and be developed in the learning process. In this paper we report the results of a study aiming to analyse Brazilian preservice mathematics teachers' understanding of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Dias, Ana Lucia Braz – 2000
This paper describes student difficulties in first-year calculus classes and suggests some instructional strategies to address these difficulties. Participants in this study were 200 low socio-economic background freshmen majoring in business in Brazil. Results show that the main difficulties are related to lack of understanding of algebraic…
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculus, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries