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ERIC Number: EJ1263741
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Oct
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1863-9690
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Mathematical Help-Seeking: Observing How Undergraduate Students Use the Internet to Cope with a Mathematical Task
Aguilar, Mario Sánchez; Puga, Danelly Susana Esparza
ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, v52 n5 p1003-1016 Oct 2020
We report on a study focused on identifying how undergraduate students make use of the Internet as a source of help to solve their mathematical queries. In particular, with the help of monitoring software, we observe how a group of engineering students use the Internet to solve a mathematical task related to the concept of definite integral, and we produce a characterization of their help-seeking behaviors. We observed that students manifest instrumental help-seeking behaviors mostly associated with the procedural items of the task (such as solving a definite integral), although there were executive help-seeking manifestations associated with the declarative questions (such as providing definitions). There was a general pattern of behavior manifested by the students who participated in the study; this pattern was dominated by the use of search engines and keywords to identify sources of mathematical help.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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