Few textbooks in mathematical economics cover optimal timing problems. Those which cover them do it scantly or in a rather clumsy way, making it hard for students to understand and apply the concept of optimal time in new contexts. Discussing the plentiful illustrations of optimal timing...

The analysis of the content of kinds of performance of future Bachelor of Economics has been conducted to detail the means of competency development, to identify common cultural and professional competencies which are focused on the usage of information technologies in teaching Mathematics....

The author examines the formation of common cultural and professional competencies of future managers by means of matematic modeling of economic processes using technology «Finding solutions»

We present a simple method of solving first-order linear differential and difference equations with a constant term and a constant coefficient. When solving such equations standard books in mathematical economics resort to a particular integral and a complementary function without further...

Principles of Economics students at Mississippi State University were provided the opportunity to use computer assisted instruction (CAI) as a supplemental study activity. Students were free to choose the extent of their computer work. Throughout the course, weekly surveys were conducted to...

The article provides an overview of the main steps in the change of the Russian school in the twentieth century. There is analyzed the problem of achieving a balance between equal access to education and individualization of learning

The article analyzes the characteristics of students’ cognitive sphere. Desire to promote independence of students in gaining knowledge was the main impetus for the creation by the author of the textbook of "Practical studies"

A growing number of today’s college students attend local 2-year community colleges. Many of these students will ultimately transfer to major universities in pursuit of the traditional Bachelors degree. The question of whether such transfer credits adequately prepare students for future...

This article, deposited for archival purposes with Repec, contains the submission of the UK-based Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) on the benchmarking of research assessment in economics in the UK, to a consultation organised by the Economics and Social Science Research Council (ESRC)...

As South African universities experience extremely low graduation rates, academic staff implement a range of interventions, for instance tutorial programmes, in order to improve student performance. However, relatively little is known about the impact of such tutorial programmes on students’...