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AUTHOR
Yannis Liakos
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Mathematical modeling and competencies for biology students
2017
International audience; The research aims at introducing modeling tasks with an ultimate goal to engage students more actively into learning mathematics through tasks that are biologically 'colored'. My focus is on the individual progression (if any) of students' mathematical competencies during a sequence of modeling sessions as part of their first year mathematics. My goal is to explore the nature of progression within the competency profile of participating student, the relation between modeling processes and this progression and what transformations are applied in these sets of competencies.
The development of students’ mathematical competencies : The case of biology students
2023
This research focuses on the development of mathematical competencies of first-year university students in a Biology department as they engage in nonroutine open-ended mathematical tasks set in the context of biology. The research employs a scaling instrument on a modified extant competence framework to identify evidence of student competency development by exploring situations where students activate particular mathematical competencies. The scaling instrument is designed to evaluate the quality of competence activation. The research creates individual competency profiles for volunteer students who participated in a series of calculus classes addressing several mathematical areas over one …
How an inquiry-oriented textbook shaped a calculus instructor’s planning
2021
We investigate how an inquiry-oriented, dynamic, open-source calculus textbook shaped one college instructor’s planning. We rely on Dietiker et al.’s [(2018). Research commentary: Curricular notici...
A new tool for the assessment of the development of students' mathematical competencies
2018
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