Teaching Mathematics to tertiary students can be a challenge to educators, mainly because they must deal with learners' varying levels of readiness. Some of the factors attributing to the variability are learners' perceptions of mathematics, their previous learning experiences, and fear of failure. We implemented a teaching approach to facilitate…

We report on three approaches taken to incorporate collaborative activities into undergraduate mathematics classes. There is strong evidence from research in K-12 classrooms that these, and similar, approaches support a range of positive learning outcomes for students. Despite the potential benefits the cited studies have shown, research into the…

Two types of students at our university college were combined with the aim of bringing different knowledge together and in this way improving the learning environment. Based on observations and interviews, the project only partly turned out as expected. In this paper we try to ascertain what went right and what went wrong, explain why, and suggest…