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Schmidt, Karsten; Winsløw, Carl – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2021
A central problem in undergraduate mathematics education for future engineers consists in the perceived and actual relevance of the mathematical content. One strategy to strengthen both is to let students experience how that content appears in posing and solving authentic problems from the field of engineering which the students have signed up to…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Engineering Education, Mathematics Activities, Undergraduate Students
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Bettina Dahl; Hans Hüttel; Jakob Gulddahl Rasmussen; Morten Grud Rasmussen – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
Many universities throughout the world apply student-centered approaches. Common to these is that projects, problems, challenges etc. stem from "real life". Mathematics is an effective tool to solve problems, but in this paper, we discuss how we reconcile the fact that mathematics is both a pure and an applied discipline with…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Student Centered Learning, Universities, Problem Solving