Individual Work in Plane Geometry

1930 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
Jas. H Zant
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
The State ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
Individual Instruction ◽  
Work Done

In the October 1929 number of the Mathematics Teacher there appeared a report of individual work done in ninth grade algebra1. The following report may be of interest as a description of an attempt to teach plane geometry by an individual instruction method. It was used in the Russell High School of the Southeastern State Teachers College, Durant, Oklahoma during the winter and spring of 1927-28. The class used was composed of about twentyfive members which were all the pupils taking geometry in this particular school. The text book in use was the state adopted text of Oklahoma, Newell and Harper's Plane Geometry, published by RowPeterson and Company.

Mathematics in the Junior High School: Textbook series and learning theory

1955 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-164
Author(s):  
G. W. Brown
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Learning Sequence ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Textbook Series

Do textbook series in arithmetic develop the mathematical concepts and skills in accordance with current learning theory? This is an important question for the junior high school mathematics teacher. The answer determines the extent to which the teacher may rely on the textbook for guidance in the learning sequence. Since, for many students, mathematics instruction ceases at ninth grade, mathematical strands considered by teachers and textbook writers to be important must be brought to a culminating point by that time.

scholarly journals Elaboração e viabilização de uma aula sobre circunferência no ensino médio: um estudo de caso baseado na gênese documental

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRYSTIAN BASTOS DE ALMEIDA ◽  
CELINA APARECIDA ALMEIDA PEREIRA ABAR
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Public School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
The State ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Use Of Resources

ResumoEste artigo visa a apresentar um estudo sobre o trabalho documental de um professor de Matemática do Ensino Médio e de um professor articulador de área, no processo de elaboração e viabilização de uma aula sobre circunferência, numa turma de 3ª série do Ensino Médio. Consideramos como principal base teórica a Gênese Documental, na qual a criação de um documento ocorre a partir de uma coletânea de recursos por apropriação e modificação pelo professor. Assim, em um intervalo de dois meses, em uma escola pública da rede estadual da Bahia, ocorreu a observação do trabalho do professor, organizado em três fases: antes, durante e depois de sua aula; através delas, procuramos discutir o uso dos recursos propostos pelo professor de Matemática e professor articulador para o ensino de circunferência. As conclusões do trabalho indicam expectativas teórico-metodológicas para a implementação de estudos na área da formação continuada docente, na direção da investigação reflexiva, sobre o uso de recursos para a viabilização da prática docente. Palavras-chave: Gênese Documental; Circunferência; Formação continuada docente.AbstractThis article aims to present a study on the documentary work of a high school mathematics teacher and of an area coordinator teacher, in the process of elaborating and making a circumference class feasible, in a 3rd grade class in high school. We consider Documentary Genesis as the main theoretical basis, in which the creation of a document occurs from a collection of resources by appropriation and modification by the teacher. Thus, in an interval of two months, in a public school in the state network of Bahia, the work of the teacher was observed, organized in three phases: before, during and after his class; through them, we seek to discuss the use of resources proposed by the mathematics teacher and articulator teacher for teaching circumference. The conclusions of the work indicate theoretical and methodological expectations for the implementation of studies in the area of continuing teacher education, in the direction of reflective investigation, on the use of resources to make teaching practice feasible.Keywords: Documentary Genesis; Circumference; Continuing teacher education. 

Application

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 502-505
Author(s):  
Sheldon S. Myers
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
High School Algebra ◽  
Problem Material

Your department editor has been doing a great deal of thinking and reading concerning the role of applications in mathematics instruction. Following are several key references which we have found: “The Necessary Redirection of Mathematics, Including its Relation to National Defense,” by William Betz in The Mathematics Teacher, April, 1912, page 147; “The Use of Applications for Instructional Purposes,” by Edwin G. Olds in The Mathematics Teacher, February, 1941, page 78; “The Mathematics Most Used in the Sciences of Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Higher Mathematics,” by George II. Nickle in The Mathematics Teacher, February, 1942, page 77; A Study of Problem Material in High School Algebra by Jesse Powell, Contributions to Education, No. 405, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1929.

Continuing in Mathematics: A Longitudinal Study of the Attitudes of High School Girls

1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Sherman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
College Preparatory ◽  
Mathematics Attitudes ◽  
High School Girls ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics Confidence ◽  
School Girls

The mathematics attitudes (determined by ratings on the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales) of ninth grade girls of similar intellect who subsequently took one to four years of college preparatory math were compared in 1975 and 1978 (n = 84). Math enrollment groups differed significantly on the following scales: Usefulness of Mathematics, Confidence in Learning Mathematics, Teacher (perceived attitude toward the student as a learner of mathematics), and Effectance Motivation in Mathematics as assessed both in Grades 9 and 12, and on the Math as a Male Domain Scale as assessed in Grade 12. From Grade 9 to 12, scores on the Attitude toward Success in Math Scale became significantly more positive.

The Plane Geometry Scholarship Tests in Ohio

1933 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 457-466
Author(s):  
H. C. Christofferson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Elementary Mathematics ◽  
The State ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Test Program ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Scholarship Program ◽  
Geometry Test

There are at least three parts to the Scholarship program carried on by the State Department of Education in Ohio under the leadership of Ray G. Wood: the Every Pupil Test program in December and April of each year, the State Scholarship Contest in May, and the General Scholarship Test for High School Seniors usually given in March each year. This report is concerned with the Every Pupil Test program only and largely with the geometry test results for December 1930 and 1931. These results have been carefully diagnosed and presented in two bulletins entitled, “The Learning and Teaching of Geometry”1 and “The Ohio Survey of Elementary Mathematics.”2 It shall be the purpose of this paper to present some of the most striking results given in those bulletins.

News Notes

1929 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New York ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
New York State ◽  
The State ◽  
Fall Meeting ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
York State ◽  
Friday Afternoon ◽  
Mathematics Section

The Mathematics Section of the Western District of the New York State Teachers Association held its fall meeting in the Auditorium of School Number 3 at Buffalo on Friday afternoon, November 2d. Professor Joseph F. Phillippi, of the State Teachers College of Buffalo, presided. Professor Reeve, of Teachers College, discussed “The New Course in the Junior High School,” and Mr. Seymour, State Supervisor of Mathematics in New York, discussed “The rew State Syllabi in Mathematics.”

A Study of the Reliability of Test Questions

1915 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
George Gailey Chambers
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
Text Book ◽  
School Year ◽  
High School Girls ◽  
School Girls ◽  
Comparison Of The Results

This paper is a study of a test on deductive reasoning and a comparison of the results of that test with the teachers’ marks in plane geometry. T his test was given to 49 high-school girls who had just completed a half year’s work in plane geometry covering during that time the first two books of Robbins & Somerville’s text-book. Previous to their study of geometry they had studied algebra through simultaneous quadratics, spending on that 5 periods a week for one school year and 2 periods a week of ¼ of a school year. That was followed by 2 periods a week for ¼ of a school year in constructive geometry. In the case of 5 of these girls we have been unable to obtain the teacher’s marks, so that in this paper the answers of only 44 girls are taken into account.

News Notes

1928 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-117
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
John Adams ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Unit Of Work ◽  
Cleveland Ohio

The meeting was called to order by the chairman, Joseph A. Nyberg. Hyde Park High School, Chicago. In the absence of the secretary, Margaret Dady, Waukegan Township High School, Waukegan, Illinois, the chairman appointed Edwin W. Schreiber of Ann Arbor as secretary pro tempore, who read the minutes of the 1926 meeting held at Crane Junior College, Chicago. Mr. Nyberg then introduced Miss Hildegarde Beck, Northwestern High School, Detroit, who presented a paper entitled: “Adjustinst the Course of Study in Ninth Grade Mathematics to the Ability of thePupil.” Mr. Charles A. Stone, University High School, Cllicago, followed with a paper on: “Functional Analysis of a Unit of Work in Ninth Grade: Mathematics.” The third paper was presented by Mr. Fred A. Burroughs, John Adams lligh School, Cleveland, Ohio, entitled: “An Investigation of Achievements in Plane Geometry.”

What the State Teachers College means to Bemidji Financially

1929 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 342-347
Author(s):  
Marbel Frances Rice
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
The State ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
School Time ◽  
Health Community ◽  
The Subject

Interesting units of work occupying several days or weeks of school time, growing out of the work in IIistory, Geography, Health, Community Life, or English, have not been unusual in the last few years. Entire projects in Arithmetic have been more rare. The children of the seventh and eighth grades of the Junior High School department of the Bemidji State Teachers College completed a six weeks, project that was unique in that arithmetic was the subject that formed the nucleus of the study.

Tips for Beginners: An aid to writing deductive proofs in plane geometry

1958 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-305
Author(s):  
John F. Schacht
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Plane Geometry ◽  
School Students

In a recent article in The Mathematics Teacher, Rosskopf and Exner suggest that “… teachers and textbooks should do a better job of introducing high school students to the concepts of logic.”1

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