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Students' perceptions of the relevance of mathematics in engineering

Jennifer Flegg Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Dann Mallet Discipline of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Mandy Lupton School of Cultural and Language Studies, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Pages 717-732 | Received 26 Jun 2011, Published online: 21 Dec 2011

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