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Internationalizing College Algebra

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Few undergraduate classes match the potential of college algebra to internationalize the university experience. The complexity and variability of the world’s most pressing issues—of health outcomes, income, access to education, access to clean water—mean that a great deal of influential information is conveyed mathematically, usually as tables of values and graphs.

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  1. Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota, USA

    Susan Staats

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    Rhiannon D. Williams

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    Amy Lee

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Staats, S. (2015). Internationalizing College Algebra. In: Williams, R.D., Lee, A. (eds) Internationalizing Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-980-7_10

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