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Mathematics plays a vital role in many areas of finance and provides the theories and tools that have been widely used …
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, modeling, and mathematics are identified as the main constituents of ubiquitous computing in this study. These four areas are …
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This article describes how for many college students the transition to college-level mathematics courses presents new … challenges beyond those that were part of the high school experience. In this interdisciplinary study forty-four non-mathematics … applied mathematical tasks, mathematics achievement in college, and the relationship between predictors of college success …
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This article explores how motivation in computer games could be integrated into mathematics education. The scope of the … study was conducted with the purpose to obtain a common understanding of nine teachers and 11 students about mathematics … interviews have revealed that the existing mathematics education is built on drill-and-practice approach with Polya's problem …
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having a thorough understanding of the mathematics content is expected, yet teacher preparation programs struggle to help … elementary pre-service teacher candidates who enter undergraduate programs without the solid mathematics foundations needed to be … successful in passing the North Carolina General Curriculum Mathematics Licensure test. With this problem serving as the backdrop …
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The purpose of this study was to explore gender differences among digital native students in mathematics learning and … confident in mathematics. While females still lag behind males in spatial abilities and mathematics confidence in the past …
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incidence of lateness and skipping school compared with boys, which in turn improves girls' test scores in mathematics, science … wage gap results in a 0.20%, 0.13% or 0.06% increase in test scores for mathematics, science, and reading, respectively. …
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from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate …
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negative impact on performance in mathematics and that social emotional skills can help students deal with bullying. Several …
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This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 2007 colloquium on new perspectives on games and interaction at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam. The purpose of the colloquium was to clarify the uses of the concepts of game theory, and to identify promising new directions....
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