Possible Reasons for Students' Ineffective Reading of Their First-Year University Mathematics Textbooks. Technical Report. No. 2011-2 [electronic resource] / Mary D. Shepherd, Annie Selden and John Selden.

This paper reports the observed behaviors and difficulties that eleven precalculus and calculus students exhibited in reading new passages from their mathematics textbooks. To gauge the effectiveness of these students' reading, we asked them to attempt straightforward mathematical tasks, based...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Shepherd, Mary D.
Corporate Author:	Tennessee Technological University, Department of Mathematics
Other Authors:	Selden, Annie, Selden, John
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2011.
Subjects:	Reading Comprehension. Textbooks. Metacognition. Calculus. Content Area Reading. Reading Difficulties. Reading Skills. Scores. College Entrance Examinations. Mathematics Instruction. Readability. Undergraduate Students. College Mathematics.