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Hilliam, Rachel; Calvert, Carol – Open Learning, 2019
Students from many different subject areas are required to study statistics as part of their qualification. The Open University developed a statistics module which could simultaneously be studied by students from a variety of different disciplines, by engaging them with topics which are of interest to everyone, namely money, education and health,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Statistics, Student Diversity, Learning Modules
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Reed, Stephen K. – Cognition and Instruction, 2006
Previous research has shown that students construct equations for word problems in which many of the terms have no referents. Experiment 1 attempted to eliminate some of these errors by providing instruction on canceling units. The failure of this method was attributed to the cognitive overload (Sweller, 2003) imposed by adding units to the…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Word Problems (Mathematics), Control Groups, Mathematics Instruction