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It's said that vampires suffer from a syndrome called arithmomania or an obsessive love of counting, so much so that to escape a vampire you just need to throw loads of cloves of garlic on the floor and the vampire can't resist counting them, allowing you to make a hasty exit. It was this obsession with counting that inspired my favourite Muppet character, the vampire Count von Count. But I'm actually not in Transylvania to track down vampires but another local inhabitant who was obsessed wi...
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Gender equity in mathematics: beliefs of students, parents, and teachers.
School Science and Mathematics
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Multicultural mathematics instruction: approaches and resources.
Teaching Children Mathematics
; Mathematics, like all other subject areas, is embedded in cultural contexts. Cultural background frames the way we look at the world. It pervades the whole of who we are and strongly influences our perspectives, manner of thinking and communicating, and other ways of processing and interacting with
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High school students' attitudes toward mathematics.
Academic Exchange Quarterly
; Abstract Longitudinal data from four high schools over two school years indicate that students did not want a job using mathematics, even when they viewed mathematics as important. About half were willing to work a long time to understand new ideas or obtain a solution to a problem; slightly more
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A Review of the Integration of Science and Mathematics: Implications for Further Research.
School Science and Mathematics
; ... this study, students in an integrated algebra and physical science class used more conceptual linkages in constructing concept maps than did the students in a discipline-specific class. Similarly, Isaacs et al. (1997) reported the positive effects of the Teaching ...
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COMPUTERS, MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, AND THE ALTERNATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE CALCULUS IN THE YUKTIBHASA.
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; Introduction The East-West Civilizational Clash in Mathematics: Pramana versus Proof In Samuel P. Huntington's terminology of a clash of civilizations, one might analyze the basis of the East-West civilizational clash as follows: the Platonic tradition is central to the West, even if we do not go
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The shortfall of female mathematics lecturers in Nigerian Universities: strategies for promotion and retention of prospective female mathematics lecturers.
Journal of International Women's Studies
; Abstract Mathematics is the bedrock of national development. It is a subject without which a nation cannot move forward scientifically or technologically. It has been observed that the level of female participation in Mathematics studies in the Universities is very low and over the years there has
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Connecting science and mathematics instruction: pedagogical context knowledge for teachers.
School Science and Mathematics
; Although the reform literature in mathematics and science is replete with calls for the integration of math and science, there remain precious few empirical studies examining the prerequisite skills, beliefs, knowledge bases, and experiences necessary for teachers to implement integrated
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Gender, beliefs, and achievement in remedial college-level mathematics.
Journal of Higher Education
; Introduction Although the topic of student participation in mathematics has received attention in the higher education literature [for example, 1, 4, 14, 36], most such studies involve the analysis of trends and national data sets. Despite calls for a higher education research agenda that places
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Attitudes toward mathematics of precalculus and calculus students.
Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics
; Introductory college mathematics courses comprise a large percentage of course offerings in postsecondary institutions, serving over half of all students who ever study mathematics in college (Cohen, 1995). In a report of mathematics classes offered in fall, 2000, 14% of the sections were remedial
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