1. 'Too much, too seldom'.
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Burton, Leone, Falk, Lennart, and Järner, Sven
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MATHEMATICS , *ENGINEERING students , *COLLEGE students , *PROGRAMMING languages , *LEARNING - Abstract
This paper reports on a collaboration between three authors; two mathematicians in a Swedish university and a UK-based mathematics educator. The focus of the enquiry was the evaluation of the experience of Swedish first-year undergraduate engineers required, in their mathematics class, to learn to use the programming language Matlab . Students were interviewed and their responses compared with the intentions and expectations of lecturers. Students discerned a lack of clarity in course planning but also had many very sensible suggestions to make, the implementation of which would, they claimed, facilitate their learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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