Case study: impact of calculation subject on the performance of DPA students in UiTM Sarawak / Jamilah Rashidi, Sylvia Sani Stanley Kuda and Sharelyne Bundai Jim

• Main Authors: Rashidi, Jamilah, Stanley Kuda, Sylvia Sani, Jim, Sharelyne Bundai
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Academies and learned societies (General); Mathematical economics. Quantitative methods
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/75278/1/75278.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/75278/

In learning mathematics, students frequently encounter mathematics problems involving calculations, understanding of concepts, principles and mathematical relationship with others subject. The reasons of why mathematics subjects are difficult to learn is that the concepts in mathematics are abstract and difficult to understand, and also the students have alternative meaning of certain mathematical words before any mathematics teaching takes place.