Vocational education as preparation for university engineering mathematics

Engineering Science and Education Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 89-92

  Lawson, Duncan ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

MATHEMATICS DIAGNOSTICS TESTS; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 0033740206     PISSN: 09637346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/esej:20000206     Document Type: Article

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