Effects of culture and education on geometrical knowledge

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ineke J. M. van der Ham
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 997-1003
Author(s):  
Gergana Hristova

The knowledge on geometry are of great importance for the understanding of reality. Spatial notion and geometrical concepts, graphical skills and habits are an important part of the study of geometrical knowledge in elementary school as propedeutics of the system course on geometry in the next school levels. In the recent years, education in Bulgaria follows the trends imposed by the European Union related to the acquiring of some basic key competencies. They promote to the improvement of knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes of students and their more successful social development. From the school year 2016/2017, the education in the Bulgarian schools is in accordance with the new Law on pre-school and school education. Under this law, students are teached under new curriculum and teaching kits for the corresponding class. According to the new curriculum, the general education of the students of I-IV grade, covers basic groups of key competencies. Here, much more attention is paid also to the results of international researches on the students’ performance in mathematics. Primary school students participate in international competitions and Olympiads, which lead to the need of working on more mathematical problems with geometric content of the relevant specific types. This allows to study and use author’s various mathematical problems for teaching geometry. Their purpose is to contribute to the expansion of space notions of the students, to develop their thinking and imagination. This article is dedicated to the application of author’s various mathematical problems and exercises for teaching students from the third grade through which the geometrical knowledge and skills of the students develop and build. The solving of the mathematical problems is realized on a rich visual-practical basis, providing conditions for inclusion of the students in various activities. The proposed various mathematical problems are developed by themes including fully geometric problems and exercises for teaching mathematics to third grade students. Teaching by using the various mathematical problems was held with 149 students from third grade, from five schools - three in Sofia and two in smaller towns, in the school year 2016/2017.


1924 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
R. C. Fawdry

The agitation for a reform in the teaching of mathematics began as a revolt against the authority of Euclid whose dead hand fifty years ago still held a close grip upon the teaching of geometry in this country. England was his last stronghold. He had been supplanted in France during the latter half of the eighteenth century by Lacroix, Legendre, and d’Alembert, who introduced practical work into their geometry, accepted proofs which ignored the ease of irrationals, and did not despise intuition as a means of acquiring geometrical knowledge. America followed the lead of France, and England at that time was the only country where Euclid was the only text-book.


Robotica ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 499-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Rodrigues ◽  
Y. E. Li ◽  
M. H. Lee ◽  
J. J. Rowland

SummaryThis paper aims at contributing to a sub-symbolic, feedback-based “theory of robotic grasping” where no full geometrical knowledge of the shape is assumed. We describe experimental results on grasping 2D generic shapes without traditional geometrical processing. Grasping algorithms are used in conjunction with a vision system and a robot manipulator with a three-fingered gripper is used to grasp several different shapes. The altorithms are run on the shape as it appears on the computer screen (i.e. directly from a vision system). Simulated gripper ringer with virtual sensors are configured and positioned on the screen whose inputs are controlled by moving their position relative to the image until an equilibrium is reached among the control systems involved.


Author(s):  
Tamires Dal Magro ◽  
Manuel J. García-Perez

We argue against the claim that the employment of diagrams in Euclidean geometry gives rise to gaps in the proofs. First, we argue that it is a mistake to evaluate its merits through the lenses of Hilbert’s formal reconstruction. Second, we elucidate the abilities employed in diagram-based inferences in the Elements and show that diagrams are mathematically reputable tools. Finally, we complement our analysis with a review of recent experimental results purporting to show that, not only is the Euclidean diagram-based practice strictly regimented, it is rooted in cognitive abilities that are universally shared.


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