Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, June 2009

The June issue of Teaching Mathematics and its Applications has appeared, and it contains a number of interesting articles:

• Does students’ confidence in their ability in mathematics matter? by Sarah Parsons, Tony Croft, and Martin Harrison 
• GeoGebra — freedom to explore and learn, by Linda Fahlberg-Stojanovska and Vitomir Stojanovski
• Factors influencing the transition to university service mathematics: part 1 a quantitative study, by Miriam Liston and John O’Donoghue 
• Change in senior medical students’ attitudes towards the use of mathematical modelling as a means to improve research skills, by Zvi H. Perry and Doron Todder
• Solving second-order ordinary differential equations without using complex numbers, by Ioannis E. Kougias