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Engineering Mathematics Teaching Strategy Based on Cooperative Learning

Zhu, Wanzhen (Department of Mathematics and Information Science, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology)

Publication Information

Research in Mathematical Education / v.14, no.1, 2010 , pp. 11-18 More about this Journal

Abstract

The basic idea of cooperative learning focuses on team reward, equal opportunities for success, cooperation within team and competition among teams, and emphasizes share of sense of achievement through joint efforts so as to realize specific learning objectives. The main strategies of engineering mathematics teaching based on cooperative learning are to establish favorable team and design reasonable team activity plan. During the period of team establishment, attention shall be given to team structure including such elements as team status, role, norm and authority. Team activity plan includes team activity series and team activity task. Team activity task shall be designed to be a chain of questions following a certain principle.

Keywords

engineering mathematics; cooperative learning; team establishment; activity plan;

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