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Mura, Roberta – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1995
Presents data about views of mathematics collected through a national survey of (n=63) teachers of mathematics education in Canadian universities. Results are compared to those obtained through a similar survey of (n=103) university teachers of mathematical sciences carried out earlier. (11 references) (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Mura, Roberta – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1993
Reports results of a survey of (n=106) university mathematics teachers' about their definitions of mathematics and their identification of up to 10 books that influenced the development of mathematics. Of the 12 conceptions of mathematics identified, formalistic, deductive, and modeling viewpoints predominated. (Contains 15 references.) (MKR)
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Faculty, Content Analysis, Definitions