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Peter Klosterman – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2024
In his work leading professional development, Peter Klosterman found that teachers specifically asked for help teaching optimisation more effectively. To address challenges students often experience solving optimisation problems, he explains useful pedagogical strategies to support the teaching of optimisation and student learning in this topic.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
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Kostas D. Stroumbakis; Rommel Robertson – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
The expectations gap -- the difference between the level at which high schools prepare students and the preparation colleges expect -- is believed to be accountable for hindering access to, and success in, higher education. It has been largely attributed to misalignment of priorities and lack of communication among policy makers and educators and…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction
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Tola Bekene Bedada; M. F. Machaba – Education Inquiry, 2024
This article presents an instructional technology-based cycle model intended to support and facilitate the teaching and learning of mathematics, particularly calculus. The study used quantitative methods with quasi-experimental research that uses non-randomised assignments of the study group that are categorised into experimental and control…
Descriptors: Models, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Technology
Amanda Mohammad Mirzaei – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Introductory calculus is mandatory for postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors (Bressoud, 2015); however, many students do not persist through introductory calculus to further STEM study (Rasmussen et al., 2019). One reason for this may be that students struggle with the prior mathematical knowledge required…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Prior Learning, Introductory Courses
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Norman Rudhumbu – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2024
Purpose: Creating suitable learning conditions in university classrooms continues to be a topical issue in higher education. The above means that a continued search for innovative teaching and learning strategies in universities remains a priority issue. The study therefore investigated conditions that facilitate the effective implementation of…
Descriptors: Universities, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Charity N. Watson; Pablo Duran; Adam Castillo; Edgar Fuller; Geoff Potvin; Laird Kramer – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
College calculus plays an important role in STEM students' degree and career aspirations. One of the key factors considered in assessing a student's ability to be successful in calculus is their proficiency in topics from prior mathematics courses such as algebra and precalculus. This study set out to examine the impact of students' precalculus…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Çekmez, Erdem – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the relative effectiveness of a computer-supported teaching sequence in solving optimization problems in calculus compared to a traditional teaching approach. The participants in the study were 46 first-year prospective mathematics teachers studying in two different classes of a four-year elementary mathematics…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Calculus, Mathematics Education, Preservice Teachers
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Viviane Seyranian; Ian Thacker; Nina Abramzon; Alex Madva; Paul Beardsley – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to help undergraduate STEM students at a Hispanic-serving institution make connections between calculus and physics content and their lives using a utility-value intervention. As part of either a Calculus II or a calculus-based Newtonian Physics course, 471 undergraduate students were randomly assigned to either read…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Judd, Jamison E.; Oshiro, Briana; Cloft, Kristal; DeFranco, Thomas C. – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2021
The postsecondary Calculus series poses an ongoing challenge for students and instructors. With the rapid growth of STEM careers and the traditional role of calculus as a gatekeeper to higher mathematics, it is urgent that students develop a stronger skillset with regard to calculus topics. The current availability of technology allows instructors…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Video Technology
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Purnomo, Eko Andy; Sukestiyarno, Y. L.; Junaedi, Iwan; Agoestanto, Arief – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2022
Problem-solving is the essence of mathematics and is the main goal in learning mathematics. Many students did not have good problem-solving skills based on the field observations. The problems grew up because the students were not used to solving the problems and the problem-solving stages. They did not include issues with high complexity, such as…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Calculus
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Kotsopoulos, Donna; Weatherby, Chester; Woolford, Douglas G. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
This research explores the use of guided notes in a post-secondary calculus course and the extent to which use enhanced students' success in a first year calculus course. Guided notes have been previously shown to be perceived as helpful to learning by students, and one study showed that the use of guided notes improved pass rates in a first year…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, Outcomes of Education
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Katie Artzt – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
Effective mathematics teaching elicits and uses evidence of student thinking to assess progress toward mathematical understanding and adjusts instruction continually to support and extend learning (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014). However, as teachers march through content in precalculus, they tend to rely heavily on traditional…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Student Evaluation
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Cavalheiro, Adail de Castro; Grebot, Guy – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
This work presents an evaluation of a unified Calculus 1 course in a large Brazilian federal university. By course unification we mean having all the sections following the same weekly schedule, under the same syllabus and common assessment. We analyse two sets of data: pass rates relative to the 9 semesters prior to the unification and to the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Calculus, Undergraduate Students
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Stepan Paul; Dusty Grundmeier; Deborah Moore-Russo – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2024
In this university study, sections of an integral calculus course were randomly assigned to either a control or treatment group for a lesson on volumes of revolution. Both groups were given similar collaborative tasks, but only the students in the treatment group were given access to a set of 3D manipulatives. Pre- and post-assessments were…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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Baranyi, Máté; Molontay, Roland – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Studying the effectiveness of remedial courses in higher education has attracted a lot of interest from educational researchers and practitioners. Remediation is associated with significant economic and social costs while the results are usually dubious. In this paper, we apply a widely used method called Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Instructional Effectiveness, College Mathematics, Foreign Countries
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