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                   UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
               DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

      ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK COMMENCING MARCH 4, 1985
          (SS = Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George)

MATHEMATICS/COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM  -  Wed.,  March  6,
3:10p.m., SS 2108

                   Professor Ed Dubinsky
    ACM/MAA Institute for Retraining in Computer Science
                    Clarkson University
9"Computer Experiences as an Aid in Learning Mathematics Concepts"

                          Abstract

     It is generally agreed  that  many  undergraduate  stu-
dents, even after acquiring the techniques of a mathematical
subject, do not understand the abstract concepts.   In  this
paper, the reasons for the difficulty are discussed theoret-
ically, leading to suggestions of a new  type  for  computer
experiences  which  might  assist in learning such concepts.
Experiments are described in  which  such  experiences  were
used  in  Clarkson  undergraduate  courses,  and  the effect
tested.