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Students Understand Calculus Better When the Lessons Are Active goodmenproject.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goodmenproject.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new study found that college students better understand complex calculus concepts in active learning classes. Hill Street Studios/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesCollege students learn more calculus in an active learning course in which students solve problems during class than in a traditional lecture-based course. That’s according to a peer-reviewed study my colleagues and I published in Science. We also found that college students better understood complex calculus concepts and earned better ....
A study from Florida International University’s STEM Transformation Institute finds that using a new calculus curriculum rooted in active learning boosts student knowledge and grades. Calculus is historically a gatekeeper course for science, engineering, technology and math fields: if a student fails calculus, it’s do-not-pass go. Even non-STEM majors who enroll in calculus face its notoriously high DFW (D grade, failure and withdrawal) rate 50 percent by some estimates. ....
FIU has new math method that's raising calculus pass rates miamiherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miamiherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.