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Download full textDias, Ana Lucia Braz – 2000
This paper describes student difficulties in first-year calculus classes and suggests some instructional strategies to address these difficulties. Participants in this study were 200 low socio-economic background freshmen majoring in business in Brazil. Results show that the main difficulties are related to lack of understanding of algebraic…
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculus, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries
