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Lochhead, Jack; And Others – 1985
Numerous research studies over the past five years indicate that a high percentage of college students have severe deficiencies in their ability to use mathematics as a language for representing simple quantitative relationships. In the United States these problems are nearly as common among students with strong computational skills in algebra and…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, College Students, Cultural Influences, Higher Education
