PLM - Draft - Q sort form

Human ecology
Mathematics education
Psychology of learning mathematics
Project Draft

Draft - 25/5/00 - Q sort form

Notes - 30/5/00

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Q Statements:

1. Maths is always exact and certain.
2. Exploring number patterns is useful maths.
3. Each gene has only one function.
4. Evolution is a study of the history of organisms.
5. Many areas of biology can be understood without mathematics.
6. Evidence for Darwinian inheritance does not disprove Lamarkian inheritence.
7. There is only one correct way of solving any maths problem.
8. Maths consists of a set of fixed, everlasting truths.
9. History is not important to biology.
10. Puzzles and investigations are not proper maths.
11. If Darwinian inheritance is true then Lamarkian inheritance must be false.
12. Maths is always changing and growing.
13. Genes can have many roles or functions.
14. Some maths problems have many answers, some have none.
15. There are many ways of solving any problem in maths.
16. Maths is a great help to biology.

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Created 25/5/00
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