Students' Construction of Formulas in Context

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 230-236
Author(s):  
Martin Van Reeuwijk ◽  
Monica Wijers
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Realistic Mathematics Education ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Realistic Mathematics ◽  
Statistics And Probability ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The University

The Mathematics in Contrat (MiC) project is an NSF-funded project carried out by the University of Wisconsin—Madison and the Freudenthal institute of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The purpose of the MiC project is to create a comprehensive mathematics curriculum for grades 5 through 8 that reflects the content and pedagogy suggested by the NCTM's Curriculum amd Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989). The materials being developed are based on the beliefs that mathematics should make sense to students and that mathematics is used to make sense of the world around us. The philosophy is based on the theory of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), as developed at the Freudenthal Institute in the past decades, and on the belief that mathematics is fallible, changing, and, like any other body of knowledge, the product of human inventiveness. In the MiC project, the content is organized into four combined strands—number, algebra, geometry, and statistics and probability. Over forty instructionl units spread out over the four strands have been developed.

The Standards Applied: Teaching Data Visualization

1992 ◽  
Vol 85 (7) ◽  
pp. 513-518
Author(s):  
Martin van Reeuwijk
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Realistic Mathematics Education ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Realistic Mathematics ◽  
The University

As part of the project Design, Development and Assessment in Mathematics Education, I spent four weeks at Whitnall High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, testing a booklet on descriptive statistics called Data Visualization (Freudenthal Institute 1989). This textbook was developed in 1989 by the Freudenthal Institute's Research Group on Mathematics Education of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in cooperation with Gail Burrill of Whitnall High School. Especially written for this project, the booklet is based on the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards (1989) and on the philosophy of “realistic mathematics education” developed by the research group of Utrecht University.

Teaching Student Teachers to Reflect

1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Zeichner ◽  
Daniel Liston
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teacher Autonomy ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Elementary Student ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Skills ◽  
The University

Conventional teacher education programs follow an apprenticeship model and, in so doing,aspire to provide student teachers with pedagogical skills and techniques derived from a preexisting body of knowledge. In this contribution to HER's special series, "Teachers, Teaching,and Teacher Education," Kenneth M. Zeichner and Daniel P. Liston argue that the conventional approach inhibits the self-directed growth of student teachers and thereby fails to promote their full professional development. Illustrating an alternative model, the authors describe and assess the elementary student teaching program at the University of Wisconsin,Madison — a program oriented toward the goals of reflective teaching, greater teacher autonomy,and increasing democratic participation in systems of educational governance.

Projects: Delaware 6-12 Exemplary Mathematics Curriculum Implementation

2000 ◽  
Vol 93 (9) ◽  
pp. 798
Author(s):  
Peggy Kasten
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Curriculum Implementation ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
High School Programs ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The University

The Delaware 6–12 Exemplary Mathematics Curriculum Implementation (DEMCI) project seeks to substantially scale up from existing pilot projects to implement research-based, standardsdriven mathematics curricula in middle school and high school programs throughout Delaware. This National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded project is a partnership of fourteen Delaware school districts, the University of Delaware, and the Delaware Department of Education. Over the 38-month life of the project, 300 middle school and high school mathematics teachers—nearly two-thirds of all secondary mathematics teachers in Delaware— will engage in a substantial program of professional development that exceeds 150 hours for all teachers and may approach 200 hours for many.

Digitised Diseases

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Author(s):  
Carina Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
The Past ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Museum Staff ◽  
The University

Over the past year RCS museum staff have been working on a project called Digitised Diseases. This Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded project is a collaboration with the university of Bradford and Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). Digitised Diseases aims to bridge the gap between modern clinical medicine, historic medical collections and archaeological assemblages in the study of osteological pathology. The project will produce an archive of 3D case studies of exemplar specimens that can be studied virtually.

scholarly journals DESAIN PEMBELAJARAN MATERI OPERASI PADA HIMPUNAN MENGUNAKAN PERMAINAN “LEMON NIPIS”

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeinne Mumu ◽  
Benidiktus Tanujaya
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Realistic Mathematics Education ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Realistic Mathematics ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The University

<span lang="EN">This research aims to design student learning activities on the concept of sets, especially operations on the sets. The research was conducted by using design research method with a mathematics realistic education approach. The subjects of this study are 42 students of mathematics education at the University of Papua taking lecture of realistic mathematics education. There are three stages in the implementation of this research, namely preliminary design, experimental design, and retrospective analysis. The results of the study show that the use of game "Lemon Nipis" can develop students' understanding significantly to the concept of operations on the sets. </span><span lang="EN-US">students are able to understand well and correctly basic operations on the sets, union, intersection, and exponentiation.</span>

scholarly journals EVALUATION STANDARD FOR INSTITUSIONAL EVALUATION OF OPEN UNIVERSITY

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Bowon Kim ◽  
Chang Yeul Yang
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning System ◽  
University Education ◽  
Open University ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Evaluation Standard ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Evaluation ◽  
The University ◽  
Korean Universities

This study is to develop the standards and indexes for evaluating the open university as an institution. Having successfully taken root in their societies since their launching, Asian open universities now need to further up their teaching and learning system which demands a rigid evaluation and assessment of a university as an institution. For the past ten years, Korea National Open University (KNOU) was evaluated twice by Korean Council for University Education (KCUE), which is in charge of the evaluation of the Korean universities; the result was not so satisfactory. It was because its evaluation standards and indexes were not appropriate for KNOU as an open university. They were primarily for the conventional universities. Thus KNOU needed its own assessment indexes, and this is a research looking for the proper ones for evaluating KNOU within the frame of university evaluation in Korea. Other open universities in Asia also have experienced or will face such problems in terms of the university evaluation. The result of this research will be helpful not only for KNOU but for other Asian open universities preparing for the university evaluation.

scholarly journals Activities Written by Prospective Primary Teachers on Realistic Mathematics Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Hatice Kübra Güler
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Primary Teachers ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
Realistic Mathematics Education ◽  
Realistic Mathematics ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Prospective Primary Teachers

It is important for students to connect with real life in mathematics courses. The aim of this study is to investigate the activities which are written by prospective primary school teachers in the context of Realistic Mathematics Education. This research is a case study of which data were collected by qualitative methods. The participants of the research included 81 prospective primary teachers who are junior students attended primary teacher department. It was asked them to write an activity suitable for primary mathematics curriculum by considering Realistic Mathematics Education principles. They were given one month to write the activities. The activities written by prospective teachers analyzed by descriptive methods in terms of learning domains, types of context and principles of Realistic Mathematics Education. Totally 36 activities were written by prospective teachers. Based on the analysis, it was observed that not all the contexts were exactly real life contexts. It was determined that prospective teacher could not distinguish routine word problems from real life problems. It can be said that theoretical knowledge of Realistic Mathematics Education is inadequate for writing activities and prospective primary teachers need to practice on writing activities regarding the mentioned theory.

Projects: Research Activity on Design, Development, and Assessment in Mathematics Education

1991 ◽  
Vol 84 (9) ◽  
pp. 774
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
The University

This research-activity project was funded jointly by the National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Education (NCRMSE) at the University of Wisconsin- Madison and the Research Group on Mathematics Education at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. The project focused on an approach to classroom instruction in relation to the NCTM's curriculum and evaluation standards. Two sets of materials for students and teachers- Data Visualization and Matrices- were developed in The Netherlands and were used by all students in all algebra classes at Whitnall High School in Greenfield, Wisconsin. Observations and interviews were conducted by an observer from the center at Utrecht.

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