First-year and senior seminars: Dual seminars = stronger mathematics majors

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Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 289-325

  Fleron, Julian F ^a   Hotchkiss, Philip K ^a  

^a WESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

And the role of mathematics; Culture; Driving questions; Mathematics appreciation; evolution; Proof; Reading; Seminal problems; Seminars; Unity; Writing

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EID: 84863416957     PISSN: 10511970     EISSN: 19354053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511970108984007     Document Type: Article

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