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Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2013
The study reviewed in this paper examined the impact of offering financial aid informational materials on the postsecondary expectations of high school students. Approximately 5,000 students from five low-achieving high schools in Ontario, Canada, were invited to complete an online survey about their postsecondary aspirations. About 1,600 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Groups, Low Achievement, High School Students
Direct linkGordon, Sheldon P. – PRIMUS, 2008
The solutions of the discrete logistic growth model based on a difference equation and the continuous logistic growth model based on a differential equation are compared and contrasted. The investigation is conducted using a dynamic interactive spreadsheet. (Contains 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Calculators, Spreadsheets
Peer reviewedLoveless, Tom; Coughlan, John – Educational Leadership, 2004
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows a deficiency in U.S. students' mathematics performance and computation skills. The students using calculators in school classrooms result in lower math scores than students who never use them.
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Mathematics Achievement, Calculators, Mathematics Skills
Sangwin, C. J. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2003
This article defines "higher level mathematical skills" and details an important class: that of "constructing instances" of mathematical objects satisfying certain properties. Comment is made on the frequency of higher level tasks in undergraduate work. We explain how such questions may be assessed "in practice" without the imposition on staff of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Education
Radford, Luis; Demers, Serge; Guzman, Jose; Cerulli, Michele – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In this paper we report an analysis of a teaching sequence in which Grade 11 students were asked to produce some graphs corresponding to the relationship between time and distance of a cylinder moving up and down an inclined plane. The students were also asked to carry out the experience using a TI 83+ graphic calculator equipped with a sensor,…
Descriptors: Graphs, Calculators, Grade 11, Mathematics Instruction
