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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
Martinez-Cruz, Armando M. – 1995
This paper documents how eight high school students in a precalculus class enhanced with graphing calculators think about functions. Three models of thinking about functions emerged from students' function images observed over a period of 9 months. In the graph model, students believed that functions are essentially graphs; in the equation model,…
Descriptors: Calculus, Concept Formation, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
Quigley, Martyn, Ed. – 1991
These conference proceedings include two invited lectures, three working group reports, three topic group reports, two Ad Hoc group reports, a round table report, a list of participants, and a list of previous proceedings. The invited lectures were: "Values in Mathematics Education" (Ubiratan D'Ambrosio) and "Remarks on…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Benchmarking, Calculus, Cognitive Processes
