[PDF] Top 20 Students’ Reasons for Preferences of Contexts in Learning Mathematics

... common reasons by theme and in descending order of frequencies were: career prospects, curiosity, community well-being, and personal ...of students that gave the particular theme of ...the students ... See full document

... active learning. The students were given a set of problems to solve starting with very straightforward ones and gradually getting more ...the students were working on problems and interacting with ... See full document

... It is not easy to determine why this is the case, as there are several factors and ways their interactions can be interpreted. There are however two convincing, and inter-related, reasons why students with ... See full document

... prevents students from accessing various educational material and sources and creates a distressing atmosphere at ...these reasons socio economic status of student in a common factor that determines ... See full document

... our students the opportunity to engage in genuine mathematical modelling, and it might be unrealistic to expect them to do ...how mathematics can be used to model ...and learning of students ... See full document

... Dasgupta and Stout (2014) investigated why the shortage of women in STEM careers remains stark. Their re- search points to different obstacles particularly relating to three developmental periods: (a) childhood and ado- ... See full document

... different contexts (“collect together like terms”, “turn upside down and multiply”, “do the same thing to both sides”, “change side, change sign”, etc, ...early learning of algebra, for instance the fact ... See full document

... the students‟ attitudes towards mathematics showed differences according to the learning ...that learning styles have no effect on attitudes to ...of students have equal scores for more ... See full document

... teaching mathematics because this technique was thought to be consistent with the inevitable in Mathematics, helping to generalize, simplify and discipline learning but three contrary ideas ... See full document

... examine students’ problem-solving performance and representation use as a result of an instructional ...that students learning mathematics through problem-solving contexts might ... See full document

... 2002), students of junior high school, both males and females have the same confidence in dealing with ...male students showing more confidence than the female (Tella, ...despair. Mathematics is ... See full document

... for learning in distance education which involves both audio and visual that has the ability to convert learning concepts and experiences easily into mental modes, such as imaginary or words, (Tony Bates, ... See full document

... Cooperative learning model played a dynamic role in improving students’ achievement in ...on students’ mathematics achievement and attitudes toward mathematics among secondary ... See full document

... ‘teaching, learning and research mate- rials in any medium that may be composed of copyrightable materials released under an open license, materials not protected by copyright, materials for which copyright ... See full document

... Blended learning has been applied in engineering programs in recent ...blended learning intervention publications that enable and encourage application in ...the students work in groups to solve a ... See full document

... motivate students to ask the teacher about something that has not been understood or already ...obtained students can lead to their passion and enthusiasm for learning ...the students the ... See full document

... in learning mathematics with the assessment of the written Test has value Sig ...to learning outcomes group students who are taught with the use of performance assessment and a group of ... See full document

... placed in three blocks, each block including eight choice sets. We used expert opinion during the process of identi- fication of attributes and levels and choice sets were designed using experimental design. Therefore, ... See full document

... six mathematics ability in the process of mathematics instruction according to the NCTM (2014) such as problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, connections, and ...of Mathematics) affirms ... See full document

... A very interesting approach has been put forward by the well-known language teacher Michel Thomas. He adopts a less formal but very effective approach, which places an emphasis on understanding rather than memorizing. ... See full document