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Yves Nievergelt – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
On 24 June 1994 at Fairchild Air Force Base, during practice for an air show, a low-flying B-52H aircraft banked its wings vertically and crashed. Emphasizing the activity of modeling drag and gravity, these notes examine the possibility of recovery with several models. First, with algebra, historical data lead to a model where in a free fall near…
Descriptors: Air Transportation, Mathematical Models, Prevention, Calculus
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Gordon, Sheldon P.; Gordon, Florence S. – PRIMUS, 2023
This article makes a case for introducing moving averages into introductory statistics courses and contemporary modeling/data-based courses in college algebra and precalculus. The authors examine a variety of aspects of moving averages and draw parallels between them and similar topics in calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra. The…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Introductory Courses, Statistics Education, Algebra
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Sandra Barragán; Orlando Aya; Camilo Soto – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2023
Articulated pedagogical and didactic strategies allow improving academic quality and strengthen individual and institutional cognitive processes such as student retention. Mathematical modelling, articulated with complementary actions, contributes to teaching and learning processes within situations that go beyond the classroom since they are…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, STEM Education, Educational Quality, Algebra
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Atkin, Keith – Physics Education, 2020
This paper demonstrates how the transcendental number "e" may be arrived at by observing the discharge of a capacitor through a fixed resistor and then modelling the system using a simple step-wise procedure. The experimental phase makes use of the Arduino microcontroller, while simple modelling of the system is carried out by means of…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Computer Software, Mathematical Models
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Julius, Rafael; Halim, Muhammad Syawal Abd; Hadi, Normi Abdul; Alias, Azrul Nizam; Khalid, Muhammad Hafiz Mohd; Mahfodz, Zulfadli; Ramli, Fariesha Farha – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This study presents a bibliometric analysis of research on mathematics education from 1980 through 2020. The purpose of the study is to provide scientific data on the distribution pattern of mathematics education journals, the most prolific authors, countries, institutions, current research topics, potential international collaboration, and…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Mathematics Education, Databases, Algebra
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Kertil, Mahmut; Küpcü, Ali Riza – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
This study investigates prospective elementary and secondary school mathematics teachers' ways of reasoning about differentiability at a point and corner points while working on a mathematical modelling activity. Adopting a multiple-case study design, the participants of the study were 68 prospective elementary school mathematics teachers enrolled…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Education
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Cline, K.; Fasteen, J.; Francis, A.; Sullivan, E.; Wendt, T. – PRIMUS, 2020
We have integrated computer programming instruction into the required courses of our mathematics major. Our majors take a sequence of four courses in their first 2 years, each of which is paired with a weekly 75-minute computer lab period that has a dual purpose of both computationally exploring the mathematical concepts from the lecture portion…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Majors (Students), Programming, Teaching Methods
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Harwood, R. Corban – PRIMUS, 2018
This article addresses the logistics of implementing projects in an undergraduate mathematics class and is intended both for new instructors and for instructors who have had negative experiences implementing projects in the past. Project implementation is given for both lower- and upper-division mathematics courses with an emphasis on mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Letkowski, Jerzy – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2018
Single-period inventory models with uncertain demand are very well known in the business analytics community. Typically, such models are rule-based functions, or sets of functions, of one decision variable (order quantity) and one random variable (demand). In academics, the models are taught selectively and usually not completely. Students are…
Descriptors: Models, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Teaching Methods
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Oldenburg, Reinhard – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2015
Quantifier Elimination is a procedure that allows simplification of logical formulas that contain quantifiers. Many mathematical concepts are defined in terms of quantifiers and especially in calculus their use has been identified as an obstacle in the learning process. The automatic deduction provided by quantifier elimination thus allows…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Formulas, Mathematical Applications, Calculus
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van der Hoff, Quay – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
The science of biology has been transforming dramatically and so the need for a stronger mathematical background for biology students has increased. Biological students reaching the senior or post-graduate level often come to realize that their mathematical background is insufficient. Similarly, students in a mathematics programme, interested in…
Descriptors: Biology, Mathematics Instruction, Technology Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Sacristán, Ana Isabel, Ed.; Cortés-Zavala, José Carlos, Ed.; Ruiz-Arias, Perla Marysol, Ed. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2020
These proceedings are a written record of the research presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA) held in Mazatlán, Mexico, virtually beginning May 27, 2021 and in-person June 2-6, 2021. The conference was originally scheduled to take place…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods, Cultural Differences, Educational Research
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2017
This Framework builds upon the foundation of the 2010 Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Mathematics as well as versions of the Massachusetts Mathematics Framework published since 1995. The current Framework incorporates improvements suggested by Massachusetts educators after six years of experience in implementing the 2010 standards in their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Middle School Mathematics, Secondary School Mathematics, Preschool Education
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Winsløw, Carl; Barquero, Berta; De Vleeschouwer, Martine; Hardy, Nadia – Research in Mathematics Education, 2014
University mathematics education (UME) is considered, in this paper, as a kind of "didactic practice"--characterised by institutional settings and by the purpose of inducting students into "mathematical practices." We present a research programme -- the anthropological theory of the didactic (ATD)--in which this rough…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, College Mathematics, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices
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Kaur, Manmohan; Wangler, Thomas – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2014
Although most calculus students are comfortable with the Cartesian equations of curves and surfaces, they struggle with the concept of parameters. A multivariable calculus course is really the time to nail this concept down, once and for all, since it provides an easy way to represent many beautiful and useful surfaces, and graph them using a…
Descriptors: Creativity, Technology Uses in Education, Calculus, Mathematical Concepts
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