• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.32 no.1_2
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• pp.75-82
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• 2014

In this paper, we consider the periodic boundary value problem with sign changing nonlinearity $$u^{{\prime}{\prime}{\prime}}+{\rho}^3u=f(t,u),\;t{\in}[0,2{\pi}]$$, subject to the boundary value conditions: $$u^{(i)}(0)=u^{(i)}(2{\pi}),\;i=0,1,2$$, where ${\rho}{\in}(o,{\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}})$ is a positive constant and f(t, u) is a continuous function. Using Leggett-Williams fixed point theorem, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of at least three positive solutions to the above boundary value problem. The interesting point is the nonlinear term f may change sign.

• Research in Mathematical Education
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.123-144
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• 2004

There is a tradition of advocating the 'two basics' (basic knowledge and basic skills) in Chinese mathematics education. The direct consequence is that Chinese students are able to produce excellent performance in the international mathematics examinations and outstanding results in the international mathematics competitions. In this article, we will present why and how Chinese teachers teach the 'two basics,' and how combine the pupil's creativity with their 'two basics.' Open ended problem solving is a way to meet the goal. The following topics will be concerned: Culture background; the speed of computation; 'make perfect' ; Efficiency in classroom; Balance between 'two basics' and personal development. In Particular, Chinese mathematics educators pay more attentions to the link between open ended problem solving and the 'two basics' principal.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.21-32
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• 2002

The purpose of this research is to invent the method which improve the problem - solution power in mathematics, making learning materials for it and apply it to the inactive 1st grade high school students. The results of this reaserch are as follows. 1. Through this 4 phased team teaching, the atmosphere of learning is positive and learning activities are voluntary and the attitude to the mathematics is improved. 2. The harmony of team studying for a problem solution, problem understanding, flowchart drawing and mind map studying enabled students to have confidence of learning, leading to improve the ability of mathematics.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.27 no.5_6
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• pp.1265-1277
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• 2009

In this paper, we apply a new decomposition method for solving initial and boundary value problems, which is due to Noor and Noor [18]. The analytical results are calculated in terms of convergent series with easily computable components. The diagonal Pade approximants are applied to make the work more concise and for the better understanding of the solution behavior. The proposed technique is tested on boundary layer problem; Thomas-Fermi, Blasius and sixth-order singularly perturbed Boussinesq equations. Numerical results reveal the complete reliability of the suggested scheme. This new decomposition method can be viewed as an alternative of Adomian decomposition method and homotopy perturbation methods.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.73-85
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• 2009

The purpose of this research was to compare mathematically gifted students with non-gifted students in perception of learning environments, learning ability beliefs, and preference for problem-solving and task. Thirty-seven mathematically gifted students and 75 general students in middle school completed questionnaires about perceptions about mathematics. Data were analyzed by ${\chi}^2$ test and t-test. Compared with general students, mathematically gifted students estimated their talents for mathematics higher, studied mathematics more, expended more time and effort to solving difficult problems, put learning mathematics itself as their primary purpose for studying mathematics and regarded inappropriate environments as the major obstacle to mathematics study. Mathematically gifted students perceived their parents' support higher, solved problem creatively, and had higher preference for challenging tasks.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.23 no.1_2
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• pp.141-152
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• 2007

In this paper a numerical method is presented to solve singularly perturbed two points boundary value problems for second order ordinary differential equations consisting a discontinuous source term. First, in this method, an asymptotic expansion approximation of the solution of the boundary value problem is constructed using the basic ideas of a well known perturbation method WKB. Then some initial value problems and terminal value problems are constructed such that their solutions are the terms of this asymptotic expansion. These initial value problems are happened to be singularly perturbed problems and therefore fitted mesh method (Shishkin mesh) are used to solve these problems. Necessary error estimates are derived and examples provided to illustrate the method.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.28 no.5_6
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• pp.1143-1156
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• 2010

In this paper, we study the following p&q-Laplacian problem with critical Sobolev and Hardy exponents {$-{\Delta}_pu-{\Delta}_qu={\mu}\frac{{\mid}u{\mid}^{p^*(s)-2}u}{{\mid}x{\mid}^s}+{\lambda}f(x,\;u)$, in $\Omega$, u=0, on $\Omega$, where ${\Omega}\;{\subset}\;\mathbb{R}^{\mathbb{N}}$ is a bounded domain and ${\Delta}_ru=div({\mid}{\nabla}u{\mid}^{r-2}{\nabla}u)$ is the r-Laplacian of u. By using the variational method and concentration-compactness principle, we obtain the existence of infinitely many small solutions for above problem which are the complement of previously known results.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.27 no.1_2
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• pp.161-173
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• 2009

In this paper, we introduce an iterative scheme for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of a nonexpansive mapping, the set of solutions of the variational inequality for an inverse-strongly monotone mapping and the set of solutions of an equilibrium problem in a Hilbert space. We show that the iterative sequence converges strongly to a common element of the three sets. The results of this paper extend and improve the corresponding results announced by many others.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.243-248
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• 1997

A full multigrid scheme was used in computing some eigenvalues of the Laplace eigenvalues problem with the Dirichlet bound-ary condition. We get a system of algebraic equations with an aid of finite difference method and apply subspace iteration method to the system to compute first some eigenvalues. The result shows that this is very effective in calculating some eigenvalues of this problem.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.727-734
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• 1999

Let G be a connected graph of n vertices. The problem of finding a depth-first spanning tree of G is to find a connected subgraph of G with the n vertices and n-1 edges by depth-first-search. in this paper we propose an O(n) time algorithm to solve this problem on permutation graphs.