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creators_name: Faye, I.
creators_name: Nayan, M.Y.
title: Strategies for teaching confusing topics in Mathematics: A case study
ispublished: pub
keywords: Mathematics education; Power series; Set of questions; T-tests; Teaching methods, Differential equations; Fourier series; Laplace transforms, Engineering education
note: cited By 1; Conference of 2013 2nd IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2013 ; Conference Date: 26 August 2013 Through 29 August 2013; Conference Code:102015
abstract: Some topics in Mathematics can be confusing for students. Given two very close topics in Mathematics, how should they be taught? Will it better to teach them back to back or will it be better to insert some other topics in between. This paper considers the use of Power Series and Fourier series in solving Differential Equations. Two groups of students were taught the two topics. The first group has the two topics taught back-to-back while the second had one topic (Laplace transform) inserted between the two. The two groups were then assessed with a set of questions combining Power Series and Fourier series. The results showed that the mean of the group that had Power and Fourier series back-to-back is higher compared to the mean for the group that had the insertion of Laplace transform between Power series and Fourier series. The difference is statistically significant as showed through a T-tests. © 2013 IEEE.
date: 2013
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84892667453&doi=10.1109%2fTALE.2013.6654441&partnerID=40&md5=de039ff97eeb9b4e3a9acc0367f12b09
id_number: 10.1109/TALE.2013.6654441
full_text_status: none
publication: Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2013
place_of_pub: Kuta
pagerange: 254-257
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 9781467363556
citation:   Faye, I. and Nayan, M.Y.  (2013) Strategies for teaching confusing topics in Mathematics: A case study.  In: UNSPECIFIED.