scholarly journals Artillery, engineering and mathematics: statecraft and the scientific knowledge of military men, from the Bourbons to the creation of the Peruvian State (1770-1840)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Mathematics

IDEAS

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 215-225
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Moses ◽  
Linda Proudfit ◽  
William R. Speer
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Mathematics

The “IDEAS” section for this month focuses on connections between mathematics and music. including both the interpretation of music and the creation of music and musical tones. Music is very special. As a child listens to music, he or she may feel happy and want to smile or may feel a beat and want to clap or dance or may feel contemplative and want to think or write down some thoughts. The activities offer a variety of classroom happenings that tie together a student's perception of music and some important strands of mathematics. The visions of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards (NCTM 1989), including mathematics as communication, mathematics as reasoning, and mathematics as problem solving, are an integral part of these activities. Other emphasized standards are those on estimation, measurement. statistics, fractions, and patterns. The reproducible sheets for the “IDEAS” section are designed to be used by multiple grade levels. Included are four classroom activities and an activity sheet that involves parents and children in listening together to the radio.

scholarly journals Is the “Green Washing” Effect Stronger than Real Scientific Knowledge? Are We Able to Transmit Formal Knowledge in the Face of Marketing Campaigns?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
José M. Alonso-Calero ◽  
Josefa Cano ◽  
M. Olga Guerrero-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Formal Knowledge ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Mathematics

Nowadays, the majority of citizens are subjected to a great deal of (dis)information organized by marketing campaigns or by groups with political interests that indiscriminately abuse concepts such as sustainability, either bio or organic. One of the objectives of formal education in any developed country should be to transmit enough formal (scientific) knowledge about processes and products (related to chemistry, biology, economics, and mathematics) so that citizens can adequately reflect on what is really sustainable and what is not, and also to be able to evaluate the environmental impact of any process. In the first part of this work, we describe the results of a survey that has been carried out in order to assess whether citizens make decisions based on marketing campaigns or based on formal knowledge. It is analyzed if those that have followed STEM studies differ from the rest. In the second part, we propose an activity to be done, in a multidisciplinary approach, by students from both fine arts and engineering, with the objective of consolidating and putting into practice the formal knowledge they have acquired to adequately evaluate the sustainability of a process.

scholarly journals Open Science and information literacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Maria Luz Antunes ◽  
Carlos Lopes ◽  
Tatiana Sanches
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Academic Impact ◽  
Training Support ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fair Principles ◽  
The Creation

The APPsyCI, a Portuguese research center, decided to incorporate, in all its areas of activity, a research line within Open Science articulated with information literacy (IL). The Open Science assumptions were implemented through several actions: repository management, teacher and researcher training, support for choosing the journals where to publish, dissemination, and promotion of scientific knowledge within FAIR principles. The social and academic impact of the research line provides some light on the national landscape for research innovation and broadens horizons and sheds when combining IL with Open Science. Thus, the creation of this research line within the research center shows that the association of Open Science with IL can be considered as the path and object of applied research.

Evaluating a Teaching Intervention for Teaching STEM and Programming Concepts Through the Creation of a Weather-Forecast App for Smart Mobile Devices

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stamatios Papadakis
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Weather Forecast ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
Smart Mobile Devices

The last two decades have necessitated the need for an interdisciplinary approach to mathematics, science, and technology (STEM) as contemporary problems are too multidimensional to be tackled by a single scientific discipline as was the case with classical school curricula. Teaching programming has the potential to contribute to this vision as it is effective in helping students develop critical thinking skills. This work presents an educational approach that combines STEM learning with the basic concepts of programming through the creation of a weather-forecast app for smart mobile devices with the programming environment MIT App Inventor. This approach was implemented with second grade high school students as a school project. The evaluation results are considered encouraging as the students engaged in authentic learning activities and research related to the STEM field while, at the same time, enhanced their interest and knowledge in pursuing careers involving programming, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Leng
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

The Introduction makes a case for gendering the history of sexology; specifically it argues that focusing on women’s ideas facilitates a more complex understanding of sexology as a form of knowledge and power. It begins by introducing the key figures and exploring the kinds of political promise they saw in scientific knowledge. It then challenges the limits of Foucault’s highly influential analysis of sexology by contextualizing sexology’s emergence within the rise of the women’s movement in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. Moreover, the Introduction draws on the sociology of science to reframe sexology as a field, and thus to argue that sexology was built and animated by a diverse range of actors with disparate investments in the creation of this knowledge. Finally, it discusses the limitations of women’s sexual scientific work and the ambivalent legacy it bequeathed.

2. Characteristica universalis , logical calculus, and mathematics

2016 ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Maria Rosa Antognazza
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Universal System ◽  
Logical Calculus ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scientific Advancement ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Characteristica Universalis

How did Leibniz propose to pursue his all-embracing programme of scientific advancement? What were the core projects that held his wide-ranging intellectual life together? ‘Characteristica universalis, logical calculus, and mathematics’ explains that Leibniz nurtured the dream of developing an alphabet of human thoughts leading to the creation of a characteristica universalis: a universal system of signs designed to eliminate the ambiguity of natural language. This project progressed into the development of a logical calculus. Over and above the provision of a means of universal and unambiguous communication, however, the characteristica universalis was conceived by Leibniz as a powerful tool of scientific discovery and judgement on the model of algebra.

Mathematical subtleties and scientific knowledge: Francis Bacon and mathematics, at the crossing of two traditions

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIULIANO MORI
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Many ◽  
Royal Society Of London

AbstractThis article engages the much-debated role of mathematics in Bacon's philosophy and inductive method at large. The many references to mathematics in Bacon's works are considered in the context of the humanist reform of the curriculum studiorum and, in particular, through a comparison with the kinds of natural and intellectual subtlety as they are defined by many sixteenth-century authors, including Cardano, Scaliger and Montaigne. Additionally, this article gives a nuanced background to the ‘subtlety’ commonly thought to have been eschewed by Bacon and by Bacon's self-proclaimed followers in the Royal Society of London. The aim of this article is ultimately to demonstrate that Bacon did not reject the use of mathematics in natural philosophy altogether. Instead, he hoped that following the Great Instauration a kind of non-abstract mathematics could be founded: a kind of mathematics which was to serve natural philosophy by enabling men to grasp the intrinsic subtlety of nature. Rather than mathematizing nature, it was mathematics that needed to be ‘naturalized’.

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