PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Vol 2)
2013
Denver, Colorado
Difficulties in Using Variables - A Tertiary Transition Study
Page: 2-425
This article describes the results obtained from a diagnostic instrument to establish the difficulties in understanding and using variables that engineering students have at the moment of their entrance to a public Mexican university that does not examine the candidates prior to admittance. This work is part of a study that analyses the possible impact that failing to understand the uses of variables may have in understanding systems of linear equations.