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Hoadley, Susan; Tickle, Leonie; Wood, Leigh N.; Kyng, Tim – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2015
Graduates with well-developed capabilities in finance are invaluable to our society and in increasing demand. Universities face the challenge of designing finance programmes to develop these capabilities and the essential knowledge that underpins them. Our research responds to this challenge by identifying threshold concepts that are central to…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Finance Occupations, Online Surveys, Foreign Countries
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Sheryn, Louise; Ell, Fiona – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2014
Debates about how undergraduate mathematics should be taught are informed by different views of what it is to learn and to do mathematics. In this qualitative study 10 students enrolled in an advanced undergraduate course in mathematics shared their views about how they best learn mathematics. After participating in a semester-long course in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Yoon, Caroline; Oates, Greg; Sneddon, Jamie – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2014
With the proliferation of new affordable recording technologies, many universities have begun offering students recordings of live lectures as a part of the course resources. We conducted a survey to investigate why some students choose to attend lectures in person rather than simply watching the recordings online, and how students view the two…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Lecture Method