PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2019
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Conceptual desires and procedural demands: Conflicting aims in university mathematics students’ work on tasks in seminar groups
Page: 1167
Small groups teaching as part of first semester was studied through observations of the seminars, analysis of the tasks, and students’ responses in surveys and interviews. The research question posed is how the teaching activities enabled the students to develop their conceptual and procedural knowledge. The results show a desire for a development of conceptual knowledge but the demands on procedural knowledge placed the students with conflicting aims.