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Daza, Vanesa; Makriyannis, Nikolaos; Rovira Riera, Carme – Open Learning, 2013
First-year university students exhibit considerably different levels of proficiency, often lacking the necessary prerequisites to attend certain courses. This is especially true for mathematics courses. While motivation alone plays a role, by far the most significant challenge consists in harmonising the different (and often incompatible)…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
Ellington, Aimee J. – PRIMUS, 2005
In Fall 2004, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) piloted a modeling-based approach to college algebra. This paper describes the course and an assessment that was conducted to determine the effect of this approach on student achievement in comparison to a traditional approach to college algebra. The results show that compared with their…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Calculus, Algebra, College Mathematics