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Mathias Norqvist; Bert Jonsson; Johan Lithner – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
In mathematics classrooms, it is common practice to work through a series of comparable tasks provided in a textbook. A central question in mathematics education is if tasks should be accompanied with solution methods, or if students should construct the solutions themselves. To explore the impact of these two task designs on student behavior…
Descriptors: Attention, Algorithms, Creativity, Mathematics Education
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Dalibor Gonda; Anna Tirpakova – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2018
The new method of teaching the problems with a parameter was designed based on the identification of the reasons for the low success rate of the kids in solving the problems. In order to identify these causes and to find ways of their elimination, pedagogical research was carried out in two phases at selected universities of Slovakia (126…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Algorithms, Foreign Countries
Roddick, Cheryl Stitt – 1995
This study investigated students' conceptual and procedural understanding of calculus within the context of an engineering mechanics course. Four traditional calculus students were compared with three students from one of the calculus reform projects, Calculus & Mathematica. Task-based interviews were conducted with each participant throughout…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Calculus, Cognitive Style, College Students
Williams, Carol G. – 1995
Reform efforts in mathematics aim to increase conceptual understanding, an aim that can be supported through concept maps. This study compared the conceptual knowledge of function held by college students in reform and traditional calculus sections at a large state university. Fourteen students from reform sections and 14 from traditional sections…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Calculus, College Students, Comprehension