The level of patience and confidence towards problem solving and mathematics achievement of students in a technical institute

CSSR 2010 - 2010 International Conference on Science and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 849-854

  Mohd, Norhatta ^a   Tengku Mahmood, Tengku Farah Petri ^a   Ismail, Mohd Nazri ^a  

^a University of Kuala Lumpur UniKL   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

confidence; mathematics achievement; Patience; problem solving in mathematics

Indexed keywords

BACHELOR PROGRAMS; CONFIDENCE; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; MALAYSIANS; PATIENCE; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; STATISTICAL PACKAGES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; RESEARCH; STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 79959669607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSSR.2010.5773905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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