Quick Reads: Another Good Idea: A Yin and Yang Approach to Area and Irregular Shapes

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 296-297
Author(s):  
David Yopp ◽  
Zhou Jinyan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Irregular Shape ◽  
Measurement Standard ◽  
Irregular Shapes ◽  
Complex Shapes ◽  
Yin And Yang ◽  
Principles And Standards ◽  
Different Cultures

The Measurement Standard for grades 6–8 in NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000) emphasizes that students should develop formulas to find the areas of triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids and develop strategies to find the areas of more complex shapes. “Developing formulas” often involves doubling or cutting and translating pieces of basic shapes, such as triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids. Strategies for working with more complex shapes often include partitioning them into triangles, rectangles, or parallelograms. The yin and yang activity offers an irregular shape to investigate and extends and reinforces these strategies. Behind the name and the objects in the activity is the yin and yang story, which gives students the opportunity to reflect on different cultures and may help them remember the doubling strategy for finding area. This activity has been successfully implemented with students in China by Zhou Jinyan and with students in the United States by David Yopp.

Editorial

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 496-498
Author(s):  
Judith T. Sowder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Good Time ◽  
The Future ◽  
Principles And Standards

Many JRME readers are aware of NCTM's Standards 2000 initiative, but I suspect that some are not. This work will have important ramifications for future schooling in the United States and will probably have some influence in other countries as well. By the time this editorial is in print, a draft of the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics will be available for reading and comments. This seems to be a good time to provide some background on this initiative and to urge you to read the draft document and provide comments to NCTM's Commission on the Future of the Standards

Cooperative trust and trustworthiness in China and the United States: Does guanxi make a difference?

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Hanjing Huang ◽  
Pei-Luen Patrick Rau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Special Form ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Different Cultures

Our aim was to investigate and compare the effects of cooperating with either a friend or a stranger in a business context on trust and trustworthiness in 2 different cultures. In China, guanxi is a special form of personal relationship in which the exchange partners bond through reciprocal obligations. We conducted cooperation experiments based on the supply chain task in which Chinese and U.S. participants cooperated with their friends and with strangers. The results indicated that both Chinese and U.S. participants had higher levels of trust and trustworthiness for their friends than for strangers. Moreover, Chinese participants made a stronger distinction between friends and strangers than did U.S. participants. In addition, Chinese participants had lower levels of trust and trustworthiness than did U.S. participants. The cooperation experiments enrich the theoretical field of investigating the effects of personal relationships on cooperative trust and trustworthiness, and provide practical value to the management of business cooperation in different cultures.

Improving Accuracy using The ASERLU layer in CNN-BiLSTM Architecture on Sentiment Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1001-1007
Author(s):  
Sandi Hermawan ◽  
Rilla Mandala
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Activation Function ◽  
The United States ◽  
Activation Method ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Sentiment Detection ◽  
Improving Accuracy ◽  
Different Cultures

There have been 350,000 tweets generated by the interaction of social networks with different cultures and educational backgrounds in the last ten years. Various sentiments are expressed in the user comments, from support to hatred. The sentiments regarded the United States General Election in 2020. This dataset has 3,000 data gotten from previous research. We augment it becomes 15,000 data to facilitate training and increase the required data. Sentiment detection is carried out using the CNN-BiLSTM architecture. It is chosen because CNN can filter essential words, and BiLSTM can remember memory in two directions. By utilizing both, the training process becomes maximum. However, this method has disadvantages in the activation. The drawback of the existing activation method, i.e., "Zero-hard Rectifier" and "ReLU Dropout" problem to become the cause of training stopped in the ReLU activation, and the exponential function cannot be set become the activation function still rigid towards output value in the SERLU activation. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel activation method to repair activation in CNN-BiLSTM architecture. It is namely the ASERLU activation function. It can adjust positive value output, negative value output, and exponential value by the setter variables. So, it adapts more conveniently to the output value and becomes a flexible activation function because it can be increased and decreased as needed. It is the first research applied in architecture. Compared with ReLU and SERLU, our proposed method gives higher accuracy based on the experiment results.

Incorporating “World View” into the LMS or CMS is Best

2012 ◽  
pp. 1220-1231
Author(s):  
Katherine Watson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
World View ◽  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Linguistic Relativism ◽  
Different Cultures

“Linguistic relativism” leads people of different cultures to define, explain, and even see reality in images framed by their diverse languages. The most readily available and commonly used online educational materials are often scaffolded in unyielding structures shrouded in American standards and expectations. These Americano-centric course management and learning management systems render subject matter design and delivery, as well as assignment formulation, scheduling, and grading, difficult for educators who understand the importance of imbuing their materials with atypical alternative views of reality expressed in the worldviews of languages and cultures beyond the borders of the United States.

Cross Cultural Perceptions on Privacy in the United States, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Taiwan

2009 ◽  
pp. 284-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Chiou
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Single System ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Different Cultures

In this chapter, the authors will briefly discuss some cross cultural concerns regarding Internet privacy. The authors believe that due to the cross cultural nature of the Internet itself, different cultures will tend to result in different concerns regarding Internet privacy. As such, there is no single system of protecting Internet privacy that may be suitable for all cultures. The authors also utilize focus groups from various countries spanning Asia and the United States to discover the differences between cultures. Hopefully an understanding of such differences will aid in future research on Internet privacy to take a more culture sensitive approach.

Animalia

2016 ◽  
pp. 360-384
Author(s):  
Sara Bakken ◽  
John Bielinski ◽  
Cheryl K. Johnson ◽  
Yigal Rosen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
International Student ◽  
The United States ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Student Collaboration ◽  
Time Zones ◽  
Shared Goal ◽  
Different Cultures

The study described in this chapter is based on a joint World ORT, Israeli Ministry of Education and Pearson initiative to provide an opportunity for international student collaboration on a series of complex science problems. Students from four schools in Israel, three in the United States and one in Mexico, participated in collaborative complex problem-solving on science topics selected by teachers at the participating schools. The intent was to expose students to the realities of collaborating with people under unfamiliar conditions (such as different cultures, languages, and time zones) in order to reach a shared goal, and to foster the value of this practice. The chapter presents the rationale for the project, describes the Animalia mini-course in detail, presents major findings and discusses implications for future curriculum development and further research.

Cross-Cultural Validation of Measures of Social Support

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uday Tate
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Factorial Validity ◽  
Supervisory Support ◽  
Sales Personnel ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Cultural Validation

To examine the applicability of social support scales in a cross-cultural context measures of supervisory support, coworkers' support, and support from family members and close friends were obtained from retail sales personnel, 262 from the United States, 195 from Japan, and 183 from Colombia. Reliability and the factorial validity suggest that these measures may be applied across different cultures or nations.

Arithmetic and history

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 488-491
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
History Of

One's understanding of his culture is enriched when the important historical events relating to the culture are examined from a quantitative point of view. Elementary school mathematics can help our pupils (and probably ourselves) make sense out of some events or happenings of the history of the United States.

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