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University Students' Difficulties in Solving Application Problems in Calculus: Student Perspectives
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Klymchuk, Sergiy; Zverkova, Tatyana; Gruenwald, Norbert; Sauerbier, Gabriele – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2010
This paper reports on the results of an observational parallel study conducted simultaneously at 2 universities--one each in New Zealand and Germany. It deals with university engineering students' difficulties in the formulation step of solving a typical application problem from a first-year calculus course. Two groups of students (54 in New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Calculus, Engineering Education, College Students