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Danri H. Delport – Numeracy, 2022
A strong foundation in early number concepts is crucial for students' future success in statistics. Despite its importance in statistics, many first-year students struggle to comprehend the normal distribution due to a lack of basic number sense. Students get confused about the order and magnitude of negative z-scores on a standard normal curve or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Statistics Education, Number Concepts
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Schneider, Benedikt; Sparfeldt, Jörn R. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
In recent studies, test-score increases have been shown in rule-based intelligence test tasks, such as number series, after watching a corresponding video tutorial. An open question remains regarding the mechanisms involved. Specifically, taking notes to describe the relations between numbers might be linked to test scores, and is hypothesized to…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Lecture Method, Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Sakibayev, Razakh; Sakibayev, Spartak; Sakibayeva, Bela – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2019
This article is dedicated to the topic of discovering effective ways of developing students' programming abilities with the means of non-programming disciplines and activities. The authors argue that the process of educating students in programming becomes effective if students participates not only in programming lessons themselves, but also…
Descriptors: Programming, Extracurricular Activities, Mathematics Skills, College Students
Bickerstaff, Susan; Edgecombe, Nikki – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
Adult proficiency in numeracy in the United States lags that of other developed nations, and the nonselective institutions that dominate the higher education sector struggle to address the learning needs of the sizeable proportion of students who enroll in their institutions and are deemed academically underprepared in mathematics. Research on…
Descriptors: College Students, College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
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Ludwick, Kurt – PRIMUS, 2016
In the study of music from a mathematical perspective, several types of counting problems naturally arise. For example, how many different rhythms of a specified length (in beats) can be written if we restrict ourselves to only quarter notes (one beat) and half notes (two beats)? What if we allow whole notes, dotted half notes, etc.? Or, what if…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Computation, Number Concepts, Numbers
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Jaafar, Reem – PRIMUS, 2016
For students with little experience in mathematical thinking and conceptualization, writing-to-learn activities (WTL) can be particularly effective in promoting discovery and understanding. For community college students embarking on a first calculus course in particular, writing activities can help facilitate the transition from an "apply…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Writing Instruction
Mulqueeny, Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The use of logarithms, an important tool for calculus and beyond, has been reduced to symbol manipulation without understanding in most entry-level college algebra courses. The primary aim of this research, therefore, was to investigate college students' understanding of logarithmic concepts through the use of a series of instructional tasks…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, College Students, College Mathematics
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Rips, Lance J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
When young children attempt to locate the positions of numerals on a number line, the positions are often logarithmically rather than linearly distributed. This finding has been taken as evidence that the children represent numbers on a mental number line that is logarithmically calibrated. This article reports a statistical simulation showing…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Number Systems, Numbers, Mathematics Education
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Noemí, Peña-Miguel; Máximo, Sedano Hoyuelos – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The introduction of new technologies in society has created a need for interactive contents that can make the most of the potential that technological advances offer. Serious games as educational games are such content: they can be defined as video games or interactive applications whose main purpose is to provide not only entertainment but also…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Games, Video Games, Teaching Methods
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Guidry, Krisandra – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2013
This study examines whether student performance predictors in a numerically based lecture course are similar to those for the web version of the same course. A numerically based course involves quantitative concepts and requires mathematical calculations. Data were collected from students taking a financial management class at a medium sized state…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Conventional Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Lecture Method
Murawska, Jaclyn Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research study examined the development of 43 preservice elementary school teachers' conceptual understanding of place value after participating in a research-based constructivist unit of instruction in place value. The preservice teachers were enrolled in one of three terms of an elementary mathematics methods course in a private midwestern…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education
McCallister, Corliss Jean; Kennedy, Robert L. – 2001
This case study describes a congenitally blind undergraduate student who successfully completed a basic statistics course. Accommodations specific to his blindness included: a textbook on tape and review tapes before examinations; a talking calculator; graphs made on Braille paper and other tactile teaching aids. Affective problems encountered…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Blindness, Case Studies, College Students
Kieren, Thomas; And Others – 1995
In dynamical theory, mathematical understanding is considered to be that of a person (or group) of a topic (or problem) in a situation or setting. This paper compares the interactions between the situations and the mathematical understandings of two students by comparing the growth in understanding within a Fibonacci sequence setting in which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Martin, David S.; Jonas, Bruce S. – 1987
The study examined the effectiveness of a program to improve the cognitive skills of 91 hearing impaired college students. Experimental students received systematic cognitive instruction focusing on specific generalizable skills during the experimental period, several times per week, in the contexts of their regular college classes. Instructors of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, College Students
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Sherman, Helene W. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1991
Effects of 3 different types of instruction (use of manipulatives, use of diagrams, and use of symbols only) of rational number content and teaching techniques were compared for 75 preservice teachers in a course in elementary mathematics. Only the manipulatives group showed significant improvement pretest to posttest. Implications are discussed.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Diagrams, Education Majors
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