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Boudreaux, Gregory M.; Haugh, Janine; Johnson, Ed; Tinney, Laura; Whitlock, Cathy – PRIMUS, 2022
Several publishing companies now offer competing brands of online homework (OHW) software. Students rarely have a voice in choosing their required course materials, even though, ultimately, they will be asked to use and pay for these systems. In this study, Calculus I students each tested three different OHW systems. The students were then asked…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, Homework, Educational Technology
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Nicholas Gorgievski; Thomas DeFranco – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2024
In most mathematics textbooks, each lesson is followed by a set of homework problems in one of two ways -- blocked practice and mixed practice. Additionally, most mathematics textbooks rely on a common learning strategy called overlearning, that is, mastering a skill and continuing to practice this same skill. This study investigated the effects…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Scores
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Holdener, Judy A.; Jones, Brian D. – PRIMUS, 2019
Storytelling has proved to be an effective way of passing on information from one generation to the next. Whether the information relates to history, culture, health, or morality, the story provides a framework so that complex ideas can be better understood and retained. In this article, we consider the role of narrative in the design and…
Descriptors: Calculus, Homework, Mathematics Instruction, Story Telling
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Allison Dorko; John Paul Cook; Isaiah DeHoyos – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2023
In an online asynchronous vector calculus course, we observed exam answers solved with a formula from online homework instead of the formula from lecture. Our exploratory study investigated (1) why students learned from homework instead of lecture for this topic and (2) their epistemological frames (e-frames) for lecture and homework. Per (1),…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Homework, Calculus, Online Courses
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Faulkner, Brian; Johnson-Glauch, Nicole; Choi, Dong; Herman, Geoffrey L. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Background: Many engineering students fail to proceed through required prerequisite mathematics courses. Since these courses strongly influence engineering student attrition, we should examine to what degree these courses truly serve as prerequisites for following engineering coursework. Purpose/Hypothesis: We examined two research questions:…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Calculus, Course Content, Required Courses
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Morena, Matthew A.; Smith, Shelly; Talbert, Robert – PRIMUS, 2019
We describe the use of student-generated video content to assess students' engagement with, and understanding of, problem-solving skills. In this framework, students are tasked with using technology to create videos that show them working through, and explaining solutions to, challenging calculus exercises. The videos are then posted online,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Problem Solving, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction
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Breen, Sinéad; O'Shea, Ann – PRIMUS, 2019
Research has shown that the types of tasks assigned to students affect their learning. Various authors have described desirable features of mathematical tasks or of the activity they initiate. Others have suggested task taxonomies that might be used in classifying mathematical tasks. Drawing on this literature, we propose a set of task types that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Learning Activities
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Pawlaschyk, Thomas; Wegner, Sven-Ake – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
In this note, we report on an implementation of discovery-oriented problems in courses on Real Analysis and Differential Equations. We explain a type of task design that gives students the opportunity to conjecture, refute and prove. What is new is that the complexity in our problems is limited and thus the tasks can also be used in homework…
Descriptors: Homework, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Calculus
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Nepal, Kedar; Paneru, Khyam; Basyal, Deepak – College Student Journal, 2020
This paper presents the results of a study on Calculus students' use of web-based homework. We collected data from students' web-based homework usage, such as their grades, time spent, number of attempts used to solve problems, and problem solutions. We also collected grades on in-class quizzes, which were given the day after homework had been…
Descriptors: Calculus, Undergraduate Students, Web Based Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
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Palatnik, Alik; Koichu, Boris – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2019
This study aims to explore a phenomenon of a one-off manifestation of mathematical creativity on the part of a student, against the background of her normative and not especially creative behavior--a flash of creativity. We seek to elaborate on this phenomenon in terms of the 4P (person, press, process and product) model of creativity. Namely,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Mathematics Instruction, Models, Personality Traits
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Reinholz, Daniel L. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Peer assessment has great potential to improve student learning. However, assessment is not an everyday activity for students, and thus providing appropriate guidance to students is a key component of creating a successful peer assessment experience. This paper explores how to structure peer feedback in the guided process Peer-Assisted Reflection…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students, Calculus
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Çekmez, Erdem; Bülbül, Buket Özüm – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Problem-solving is regarded as a major component of mathematical performance, and well-designed problem-solving-based learning environments have the potential to assist students in developing a meaningful understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures. In this respect, given its various features, dynamic mathematics software has been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Mathematical Concepts, Teaching Methods
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Ellis, Jessica; Hanson, Kady; Nuñez, Gina; Rasmussen, Chris – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2015
We investigate the nature of Calculus I homework at five PhD-granting universities identified as having a relatively successful Calculus I program and compare features of homework at these universities to comparable universities that were not selected as having a successful program. Mixed method analyses point to three aspects of homework that…
Descriptors: Calculus, Homework, Comparative Analysis, Mixed Methods Research
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Engelke, Nicole; Karakok, Gulden; Wangberg, Aaron – PRIMUS, 2016
"WeBWorK" CLASS combines the best features of online homework and digital whiteboards to create a system that provides instructors with information on students' problem-solving processes, as well as their final answer. The system's utilization of tools that can sort students based on correct and incorrect homework and quiz answers and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Jensen-Vallin, Jacqueline – PRIMUS, 2017
As STEM educators, we know it is beneficial to train students to think critically and mathematically during their early mathematical lives. To this end, the author teaches the College Algebra/Precalculus course in a flipped classroom version of an inquiry-based learning style. However, the techniques described in this paper can be applied to a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Critical Thinking, College Mathematics, Inquiry
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