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Ramírez-Sánchez, Camilo Andrés; Romo-Vázquez, Avenilde; Romo-Vázquez, Rebeca; Velásquez-Rojas, Diana – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
The training of non-specialists, particularly engineers, in mathematics requires designing specific didactic proposals that make the importance of mathematics evident. One approach to creating such proposals consists in analyzing the mathematics used in authentic contexts of engineering research and then effectuating a didactic transposition to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction, Engineering, Teaching Methods
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Kennedy, Kristin; Schumacher, Phyllis – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1993
Describes the use of simulation to introduce the bootstrapping technique of creating confidence intervals for the mean, median, and variance. These bootstrap confidence intervals are compared to the traditional confidence intervals for the purpose of analyzing accuracy of the technique. A Minitab program to produce confidence intervals is…
Descriptors: Algorithms, College Mathematics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation