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Download full textFrith, Vera; Lloyd, Pam – Pythagoras, 2016
The ability to reason about numbers in relative terms is essential for quantitative literacy, which is necessary for studying academic disciplines and for critical citizenship. However, the ability to reason with proportions is known to be difficult to learn and to take a long time to develop. To determine how well higher education applicants can…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Higher Education, Benchmarking, Multiple Choice Tests
