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Oikkonen, Juha – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2009
At the University of Helsinki, special effort has been put to help beginning math students to get started with their studies. This involves new ways of teaching a lecture course and new ways of giving peer support to the students. The results have been promising: the number of students passing certain important courses has been at least doubled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Higher Education, Mathematics Curriculum
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Pesonen, Martti E.; Malvela, Taina – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2000
Describes changes that are being made in mathematics teachers' subject studies in order to provide students with sufficiently deep knowledge of mathematics and science and with present-day expertise in their profession as teachers. Provides an abstract algebra course as the ultimate example of a pedagogical experiment where co-operative learning…
Descriptors: Algebra, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education