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Sönmez, Neslihan; Güven, Bülent – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2023
Researchers from many countries have pointed out the difficulty of transitioning from high school to university settings, especially within the context of mathematics courses. With its abstract content, deductive thinking structure, and unique language, university mathematics is quite different from high school mathematics for students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz – African Educational Research Journal, 2023
As a result of the great earthquake disaster in Turkey, mathematics education in universities was reorganized as distance education after the pandemic period. This article aims to identify the barriers to distance education practices in higher education. In line with the aim of this study; Q methodology was used to help determine the perceptions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Mathematics Education, Higher Education
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Tuluk, Güler – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2020
This study questions the dominant approach in the presentation of the concept of slope in undergraduate education through mathematics textbooks. For this purpose, five mathematics textbooks, were analyzed for problems related to slope, and similarities and differences were revealed. First, the subjects related to the slope in the textbooks were…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Textbooks, College Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts
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Doruk, Muhammet – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2019
The aim of this study is to question freshmen's conceptual knowledge on function. In this context, after the teaching of the function, students' skills of defining the concept of function, interpreting the definition and multirepresentation for the function were examined. In the study, qualitative research approach was adopted and was an example…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Knowledge Level, Mathematics Instruction
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Öçal, Mehmet Fatih; Simsek, Mertkan; Kapucu, Serkan – PRIMUS, 2021
The use of smartphones is increasingly gaining popularity in education. Students and teachers can determine scientific concepts using smartphones equipped with sensors such as Global Positioning System (GPS -- a navigation system that provides location information) and orientation (a device to measure coordinates according to a reference frame).…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Measurement Techniques, Scientific Concepts
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Turgut, Melih – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2018
In this work, students' thinking modes and representation types in linear algebra are investigated through statistical implicative analysis techniques. Specifically, our research question considers the implicative relationships between students' thinking modes and representation types of linear algebra. The participants were 74 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Interaction, Algebra, Correlation, Undergraduate Students
Pala, Ozan; Narli, Serkan – Online Submission, 2020
Although the emphases on the importance of proving in mathematics education literature, many studies show that undergraduates have difficulty in this regard. Having researchers discussed these difficulties in detail; many frameworks have been presented evaluating the proof from different perspectives. Being one of them the proof image, which takes…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Validity
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Ardiç, Mehmet Alper – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of this study is to determine how mathematics instruction is carried out at the higher level of education in COVID-19 pandemic and what are the effects of these teaching activities. In the study, the case study model was used in which 30 lecturers with expertise in mathematics from 20 different universities in Turkey participated. In…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Teaching Methods, COVID-19
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Özdemir, Atilla; Senturk, Merve Lutfiye – Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
This study examines the effect of the flipped learning approach on academic achievement based on science and mathematics education fields with the meta-analysis method. For this purpose, including the different uses of the flipped learning approach in the literature; "Science Education & Academic Success & Flipped Classroom,"…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Science Instruction
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Çekmez, Erdem; Bülbül, Buket Özüm – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Problem-solving is regarded as a major component of mathematical performance, and well-designed problem-solving-based learning environments have the potential to assist students in developing a meaningful understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures. In this respect, given its various features, dynamic mathematics software has been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Mathematical Concepts, Teaching Methods
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Chiesi, Francesca; Primi, Caterina; Bilgin, Ayse Aysin; Lopez, Maria Virginia; del Carmen Fabrizio, Maria; Gozlu, Sitki; Tuan, Nguyen Minh – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
The aim of the current study was to provide evidence that an abbreviated version of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) was invariant across different languages and educational contexts in measuring university students' learning approaches to statistics. Data were collected on samples of university students attending…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Statistics, Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses
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Karakus, Fatih; Aydin, Bünyamin – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
This study aimed at determining the effects of using a computer algebra system (CAS) on undergraduate students' spatial visualization skills in a calculus course. This study used an experimental design. The "one group pretest-posttest design" was the research model. The participants were 41 sophomore students (26 female and 15 male)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Algebra
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Boz, Burcak; Adnan, Muge – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2017
Improved access to technology has led to an increase in the number of online courses and degree programs in higher education. Despite continuous progress, little attention is paid to "understanding" students prior to implementation of learning and teaching processes. Being a valuable input for design of online learning environments and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Calculus, Engineering Education, Online Courses
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Öçal, Mehmet Fatih – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Graphing function is an important issue in mathematics education due to its use in various areas of mathematics and its potential roles for students to enhance learning mathematics. The use of some graphing software assists students' learning during graphing functions. However, the display of graphs of functions that students sketched by hand may…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Mathematical Concepts, Computer Software, Calculus
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Çelik, H. Coskun – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
The aim of the present study was to examine the mathematical modelling studies done between 2004 and 2015 in Turkey and to reveal their tendencies. Forty-nine studies were selected using purposeful sampling based on the term, "mathematical modelling" with Higher Education Academic Search Engine. They were analyzed with content analysis.…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Qualitative Research
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