Rodd, M; Brown, M; (2004) Successful Undergraduate Mathematicians: a study of students in two universities. In: Johnsen Høines, M and Fuglestad, AB, (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004: Volume 4. (pp. pp. 97-104). International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education: Bergen, Norway.

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Abstract

As part of an ESRC-funded longitudinal study, 'Student Experiences of University Mathematics', we followed a cohort of undergraduate mathematics students at two traditional universities with high ratings for research and teaching. This report centres on interpretations of successful students’ engagement with their course as gleaned from in-depth interviews, statistical data and questionnaires. We report that these first class’ students participate in their undergraduate mathematics community in many different ways and their views about mathematics are diverse. Nevertheless, these students have, in Aristotle’s terms, ‘flourished’ and we point to factors which we hypothesise contributed to ‘first class’ students’ success.

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