Cell Phone Coverage Area: Helping Students Achieve in Mathematics

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 300-307
Author(s):  
Rose Mary Zbiek ◽  
Shari Ann Reed ◽  
Tracy Boone
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Mathematical Idea ◽  
State Assessments ◽  
School Students ◽  
Coverage Area ◽  
The World ◽  
Principles And Standards

The joys of working with middle school students in a mathematics classroom may be tempered by the challenge of meeting external expectations. However, it is possible to carefully design and implement a lesson that both embodies the spirit of Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 2000) and meets the needs set forth by our state assessments. Such a lesson can address a big mathematical idea through related activities that develop skills and concepts, involve reasoning and writing, and help students use mathematics in the world around them.

Get Your Head in the Game

2013 ◽  
pp. 228-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Herrig
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
School Students ◽  
Introductory Programming ◽  
The World ◽  
Game Environment

This chapter discusses the development and implementation of an introductory programming unit within a seventh grade technology education course. The goal of this unit was to introduce the concepts of programming to middle school students in a way that was accessible and unintimidating. Digital games provide an inherent level of engagement not present in other programming activities, and the digital game environment provides a safe platform for experimentation without concern for safety or equipment. The curriculum described in this chapter provides many practical examples of how digital games can be incorporated into a technology education classroom to engage students in the world of programming.

Techland

2019 ◽  
pp. 761-780
Author(s):  
Michelina Occhioni
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
School Students ◽  
The World ◽  
Learning Sets

This work describes Techland, an OpenSim-based VW developed and owned by the author for educational purposes for middle school students. Techland is a group of islands focused on math, and science, where explore various approaches to VW, in different and mutually not exclusive learning sets and degrees of immersion. The main objectives are to simplify abstract concepts by using scripted 3D learning objects and to engage students offering a way to go beyond the classroom as the only learning environment. So Techland can be considered a giant 3D book. Activities range from viewing the contents of the world on an IWB, as a support for the teacher's lesson, to logging on the student's avatars into the world for exploration, producing machinima videos and collaborating together. Most islands are public access and reachable from other similar virtual worlds by the HG system, so other schools could take advantage from its contents or they could share projects. Techland has got the proper requirements to will become a meeting place between students and teachers who want to find new approaches to scientific matters.

Teacher to Teacher: Literature in the Mathematics Classroom: Introducing The Inch Boy to Middle School Students

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 538-542
Author(s):  
Susan M. Foss
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Reading Aloud ◽  
School Students ◽  
Know How ◽  
Faculty Meeting ◽  
As If ◽  
Math Teacher

I was sitting in a faculty meeting when my principal suggested that teachers of all disciplines should read to their students. I remember thinking to myself, These are middle school students. They should know how to read already. My principal continued by explaining that reading aloud to a class is an excellent and effective way to in-still the love of literature in students. I was doubtful, and thought, I'm a math teacher. We don't have time to read books in math. As if he were reading my mind, the principal gave examples of how teachers of all disciplines, including mathematics, could incorporate literature into their lessons. I was skeptical but decided to give it a try.

scholarly journals Technology in action: Ascertaining the impact of cell phone calls on middle school students placed at risk of drop out

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (40) ◽  
pp. 4224-4233
Author(s):  
Naseem Hyder Rajput
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
School Level ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
The Impact

Background/Objectives: Regular attendance at school is essential for allround development of students. The fundamental objective of this study was to utilize low-cost technology of cell phones to report to parents/guardians about the attendance of their children at schools and ascertain the impacts of cell phone calls on the attendance of Middle School students placed at risk of Drop out. Methods/Statistical analysis: This study was Experimental with a PretestPosttest Control Group by design and descriptive by purpose. The participants were 30 eight graders belonging to a Public Middle School of District Shaheed Benazirabad in Pakistan. These participants were then randomly assigned to Control and Experimental Groups (15 each). For intervention of making cell phone calls to parents/guardians to inform and ask them about the reason for the absence of their child, a teacher in each participating school was assigned this responsibility. The intervention lasted for 3 months. The data was analyzed using SPSS repeated measure t-test to calculate the significance of the impact of intervention. Findings: Results of the present study indicated that the attendance of Experimental Group on Posttest (75.07 %) was significantly higher than that on Pretest (62.87%). Novelty : This study utilizes existing technology available to almost everyone and bridges the parents and school administration to get the best outcome quickly; mobile-based intervention is simple and docile to regulate students’ performance at school level; it also improves the safety of the students.

Exploring the World Using Proportional Reasoning: If Our Classroom Were the World

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-115
Author(s):  
Stacy Reeder
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Proportional Reasoning ◽  
Population Data ◽  
School Students ◽  
The World

Eager to understand their world, students can really engage when population data are introduced in the classroom. The lesson presented in this article was inspired by the book If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People (Smith 2011), which presents a great deal of data in a concise form that middle school students typically find interesting, engaging, and, most often, surprising.

Connecting Measurement and Architecture: Building an Inflatable

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-149
Author(s):  
Elizabeth D. Gray ◽  
Denise Tullier-Holly
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Real World ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Classroom Experiences ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mathematical Connections ◽  
Principles And Standards

Middle school students need to see connections between mathematics and the real world. However, they often learn mathematics as a set of distinct topics or separate strands, because a majority of the available textbooks tends to present it that way, and teachers tend to follow the textbooks. According to Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 2000), our students should be made aware of mathematical connections explicitly so that the manner in which topics are connected is obvious. McClain (1996) suggests that if teachers offer classroom experiences in which students can see connections, then “the vibrant discipline of mathematics actively engages students in their own learning” (p. 682).

Integrating Mathematics and Social Issues

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 270-276
Author(s):  
Gregory K. Harrell
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Real World ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Real ◽  
Community Issues ◽  
Principles And Standards

The Connections Standard in grades 6–8 in Principles and Standards for School Mathematics recommends that middle school students “recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics” (NCTM 2000, p. 274). This goal can be reached by providing students with rich problem contexts that involve connections to the real world (NCTM 2000). To find such contexts, mathematics teachers can look to the local community, because our culture influences the mathematics we do and influences the issues that are important to us. If teachers present students with interdisciplinary experiences within the context of local community issues, students will understand the usefulness of mathematics and it will help them develop the skills and knowledge necessary to become active participants in their communities (Zaslavsky 1996).

scholarly journals Using 6 questions cognitive method and polya’s model to helps students solve mathematical problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Xinxin Li ◽  
Ying Zhou ◽  
Liwen Liang
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Mathematical Problem ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Mathematical Equation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Equation Problem ◽  
The World

The ability to solve the mathematical equation problem is very important for the thinking development of middle school students.  “How to solve it” of George Polya is famous in the world. 6 questions cognitive model proposed by Professor Zhou are monitored through metacognition, and the 6 questions are coherent, complete and sequential. This paper found that the 6 questions cognitive model can help implement “How to solve it” of George Polya and reduce students' cognitive load. At the same time, this study found that 6 questions cognitive model can help students solve the mathematical equation problem better.

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