Rethinking course structure: increased participation and persistence in introductory post-secondary mathematics courses
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Rethinking course structure: increased participation and persistence in introductory post-secondary mathematics courses
Introduction In recent years, there has been growing concern regarding the success of students in post-secondary mathematics courses [17, 33], and in fact some authors claim that future success in college and completion of a university degree can be affected by students’ success in a first-year mathematics course [26, 32]. Many large universities, including the one in this study, require studen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Fields Mathematics Education Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1925-6639
DOI: 10.1186/s40928-017-0004-8