An investigation into the effect of motivation on learning computational estimates.

dc.contributor.author	Craghead, Kent Lee.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-07-10T15:15:46Z
dc.date.available	2012-07-10T15:15:46Z
dc.date.created	1991	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-07-10
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1824
dc.description	60 leaves	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the effect of motivation on learning computational estimation strategies by showing examples of estimation used as a life skill. The effect of motivation on students' attitude toward estimation and the correlation between mental computational abilities and computational estimation skills were also considered. Two sections of a general education mathematics course at a small university were involved in the study. One class served as the experimental group, receiving a lecture on the usefulness of estimation in daily living before receiving instruction on computational estimation strategies. The other class served as the control group, receiving instruction only on computational estimation strategies.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Mathematics-Study and teaching.	en_US
dc.subject	Motivation in education.	en_US
dc.title	An investigation into the effect of motivation on learning computational estimates.	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.college	las	en_US
dc.advisor	Connie Schrock	en_US
dc.department	mathematics, computer science, and economics	en_US