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Direct linkShaker, Hedieh; Berger, Margot – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2016
In this paper we explore first-year students' difficulties with the use and interpretation of definitions of mathematical objects as they attempt proof construction exercises in the area of elementary set theory. The participants are students at a historically disadvantaged university in South Africa. In this study the activities and utterances of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Mathematics Education, Majors (Students)
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1977
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered the selected supplemental mathematics exercises to 13-year-old students during October and November 1975 and to 17-year-old students during March and April 1976. This assessment represents a specially modified supplement to 1972-73 full-scale mathematics assessment and was…
Descriptors: Computation, Definitions, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
