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What Do University Mathematics Students Value in Advanced Mathematics Courses?
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Megumi Asada; Timothy Fukawa-Connelly; Keith Weber – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
In this paper, we present a qualitative study on what values students perceive in their abstract algebra course. We interviewed six undergraduates early in their abstract algebra course and then again after their course was completed about what motivated them to learn abstract algebra and what value they saw in the subject. The key finding from…
Descriptors: Universities, College Mathematics, Advanced Courses, Value Judgment