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A comprehensive approach towards academic failure: the case of Mathematics I in ISEG graduation

Lopes, Margarida; Fernandes, Graça - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Mathematics. Most research and analyses on the issue are focused upon either the “academic” or the “non academic” determinants of … Attitudes Towards Mathematics 1 (SATM 1) which has been especially redesigned and addressed to 1st. year students. …

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Apologia

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This set of three volumes argues that the mind – human consciousness – may be measured by considering mathematically the aggregate of that consciousness, i.e. social history. From this beginning theme of discussion three questions must arise. 1. How might this measurement be made? 2. Of what...

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Empirical

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

I argue that a form of consciousness may be found in American economic history, one which is both mathematically demonstrable and important. In this book I present a model of economic and political growth based upon systematic addition. We begin with a philosophic model of trade (pp. 34-46);...

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Theoretical

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In sum, in these essays I explore the self-similarity between levels, the fractal structure of reality, through an investigation of an inherent and unavoidable uncertainty which is unique to each level. These essays will demonstrate that as each level struggles to resolve its own inherent...

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Predicting crises: Five essays on the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This volume – Predicting Crisis: Five Essays on the Mathematic Prediction of Economic and Social Crises – is the first of three sets of essays. In this first set the economic and social history of the United States is shown to be a “system of movement,” i.e. a logical and mathematic...

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Introduction of the Profit Surface

Bell, Peter N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The profit surface is a visualization technique for data computed from trading rules. I simulate price paths and operate the trading rules to compute cumulative returns for the rule under different specifications. The specifications are pairs of integers, filter lag lengths, so a contour plot is...

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Elegance with substance

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Subject: The education in mathematics, its failure and costs, and how to redesign this market. The political economy of … mathematics education. Method: We do not require statistics to show that mathematics education fails but can look at the math … itself. Criticism on mathematics itself can only succeed if it results into better mathematics. Similarly for the didactics …

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In Quest of Truth: The War of Methods in Economics

Pillai N., Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The present paper discusses the ‘battle of methods’ in economics in its epistemic pursuit in the framework of a dialectics between science and art. The traditional distinction between deduction and induction has come to be characterized as a ‘theory-data confrontation’; while the former...

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Blind Admission? The ability of NSC maths to signal competence in university commerce courses as compared to the former SC Higher Grade maths

Hunt, Karin; Rankin, Neil A.; Schöer, Volker; Nthuli, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Mathematics is an important signal used for admission into commerce courses in South African universities. In 2008 the … thus created a structural break in the ability of the mathematics mark to signal preparedness for university. Although the … average test and exam scores than previous years. This suggests that marks obtained for mathematics in the new National Senior …

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What Enhances Mathematical Ability? A Cross-Country Analysis Based on Test Scores of 15-year Olds

Bailey, Mark F; Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the mathematical abilities of 15-year olds in a range of countries which participated in the 2003 cycle of the OCED’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Utilising information on the scores obtained by individual students in the mathematical part of the...

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