University Mathematics Students’ Learning Difficulties

Influencing Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching Mathematics for Numeracy to Students with Mathematics Learning Difficulties

This paper reports on the beliefs of a group of K-8 mathematics teachers about appropriate goals and methods of mathematics teaching for students with mathematics learning difficulties and for students generally. The teachers were involved in a brief professional learning program that aimed to provide them with effective strategies for mathematics teaching for numeracy, and to influence their r...

Learning University Mathematics

This video demonstrates the program MU, the Mathematics Understander, which learns University level Pure Mathematics. The video is both concerned with MU's performance in learning and performing mathematics, and its underlying cognitive architecture, the Contextual Memory System, (CMS). The changes in knowledge representation during proof checking and problem solving are demonstrated graphically.

Early identification and intervention for students with mathematics difficulties.

This article highlights key findings from the small body of research on mathematics difficulties (MD) relevant to early identification and early intervention. The research demonstrates that (a) for many children, mathematics difficulties are not stable over time; (b) the presence of reading difficulties seems related to slower progress in many aspects of mathematics; (c) almost all students wit...

The Thinking Styles of University Mathematics Students

In this paper, we focus on the relationship between studying university mathematics and the ‘thinking styles’ of both undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics students. A crosssectional quantitative study (N = 238) was conducted in a large Greek university, identifying the thinking styles of second, third and fourth year undergraduates, as well as those of students following a postgraduate de...

Students with Disabilities, Learning Difficulties and Disadvantages