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What does mean a following phrase: Mathematics as a 'service subject' Hello everyone! I was reading a text in english: 'Difficulties in the passage from secondary to tertiary education', but I did not understand the phrase above, help please!
16 août 2016 02:04
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"Service subject" has no meaning to me in American English. British English perhaps?
16 août 2016
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I looked up the phrase and found "Teaching mathematics as a service subject" And this makes a lot more sense. So a teacher teaches subjects. This is about teaching the subject of "Mathematics as a service" So, the subject is about how to use Mathematics to do something.
16 août 2016
Sounds like jargon to me. My guess is what they mean is that the students' primary focus is a subject other than maths, but they need it for what they are actually studying, for example physics or engineering.
16 août 2016
I guess service subject kinda means main subject? Coz the students who are major in math has to treat maths study as their main task
16 août 2016
the context could help, it is the following: 'This is true whether the student are specializing in mathematics or are registered in a program for which mathematics is a "service subject" '
16 août 2016
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