Associate Professor Geoffrey Wake, from Nottingham University, who co-authored the study, said the demands placed on students taking degree courses “came as a bit of a shock for many students”.
The study was based on a large-scale questionnaire of more than 1,600 students at five universities studying mathematics, science, engineering and medicine. It also involved more in depth interviews with 100 students.
Researchers found that students were not “fully aware of the importance of the mathematical content in the courses they had joined at university, and particularly how to apply maths in practice”.
The study added: “Life prior to university focuses on achieving maximum examination success to be sure of a place. Faced with this pressure, school and college maths courses pay little attention to preparing students to use maths in other areas of study.”
Associate Professor Wake said: "Many students felt that they would benefit from student-centred learning and greater opportunity for dialogue with their lecturers.
"Unfortunately, the efficiencies required of university teaching resulting in lecturing of large numbers of students makes developing such a learning culture unlikely."
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