In this paper, we develop a review of the research focused on the teaching and learning of ordinary differential equations with the following three purposes: to get an overview of the existing literature of the topic, to contribute to the integration of the actual knowledge, and to define some possible challenges and perspectives for the further research in the topic. The methodology we followed is a combination of a systematic literature review and a bibliometric analysis. The contributions of the paper are given by the following: shed light on the latest research in this area, present a characterization of the actual research lines regarding the teaching and learning of ordinary differential equations, present some topics to be addressed in the next years and define a starting point for researchers who are interested in developing research in this field.

The stabilization problem for a class of non-linear, non-autonomous discrete-time systems is discussed. Based on the ‘freezing’ method to discrete-time systems, we derive explicit conditions for global feedback exponential stabilizability. This approach will allow us to avoid the construction of Lyapunov functions in some situations.

In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for the exponential stabilizability of a class of perturbed non-autonomous difference equations with slowly varying coefficients. Under appropriate growth conditions on the perturbations, we establish explicit results concerning the feedback exponential stabilizability.