scholarly journals Fostering Mathematical Creativity by Teaching Logically Precisely Reasoning at the Grade Two

Pedagogika ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Vaiva Grabauskienė ◽  
Oksana Mockaitytė-Rastenienė
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Mathematical Reasoning ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Mathematical Creativity ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

In this article, the teaching of mathematical reasoning in the primary school is being analysed through the scope of mathematical creativity and their interconnections are being explained in more detail. Also, a construct of mathematical creativity is being defined. The logic of an empirical research is based on an idea that the lack of knowledge in mathematical syntax and, especially, incomprehension of semantic suppress the mathematical creativity. Wherefore, an analysis of content and number of children mistakes may let observe how the learning environment influences mathematical creativity. Methods: written survey, classical teaching experiment, content analysis. For the teaching of mathematical reasoning, the original purposefully created system of mathematical activities was used, based on a principle concrete-pictorial-abstract. The total number of researching type exercises done by children in an experimental class was thirteen, and the exercises were from different fields of mathematics. The previously mentioned method of teaching mathematics resulted in decrease in overall mistakes done by the children and it reached a one third. The changes in proportion between syntax and semantic mistakes were evident. After the experiment, the experimental class made as half as less semantic mistakes, in comparison to the control class. This indicated that learning by researching promoted mathematical creativity in children.

Transformation of Individual Learning through Informatics and Information Technology Activities in Primary School

2013 ◽  
pp. 42-54
Author(s):  
Valentina Dagiene ◽  
Vaiva Grabauskiene
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Individual Learning ◽  
Fundamental Point ◽  
Learning Conditions ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Information Technology Impact

The topic of the individual learning conditions creation can be analysed from the technological as well as pedagogical side. In both cases there is the same fundamental point: how to create valuable and as much as possible natural learning environment? The experience in the application of technologies for personalisation, analysed in scientific literature, reveals newer possibilities for the individual activities support. This encourages taking a different route in analysing individual learning – to interdisciplinary combine the content of close concepts. The paper deals with basic concepts of interdisciplinary content analysis – informatics and information technology impact to an individual learning in primary school.

scholarly journals Emotions of Primary School Pupils in Mathematics Lessons

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Ineta Helmane
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Primary School Pupils ◽  
Negative Factors

Abstract The article describes and analyses theoretical and empirical materials about the pupils’ emotions in the process of teaching/learning mathematics in a primary school. The aim of the article is to investigate the experienced emotions by pupils when learning mathematics in a primary school and highlight the factors arousing emotions in learning mathematics in primary school. The article analyses the data obtained in empirical research on the emotions experienced by pupils during mathematics lessons in primary school. In questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, pupils reveal what gave them positive emotions in mathematics lessons, as well as what made them experience negative emotions. Based on the analysis of empirical data, we highlighted the factors of learning mathematics in primary school that caused positive emotions; however, the failure to comply with these factors caused negative factors in pupils. As a result of the research, it is possible to select the factors facilitating positive emotions while teaching mathematics in primary school.

scholarly journals Classes for gifted children as a development factor of self-awareness in primary school

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Phd Alla Gudzovskaya ◽  
Phd Marina Mishkina
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Constructive Development ◽  
Development Factor ◽  
Composition I

The article dwells on the issue of self-awareness development in primary schools. The paper offers theoretical and empirical researches of the issue. The empirical research is based on Newtten’s method of “unfinished ideas” (modified by A.B. Orlov); Newtten’s the scale of temporary settings; self-appriciation method “Tree” or “Find yourself” (modified by L.P. Ponomarenko); content-analysis of the composition “I am a human being”. In conclusion the article provides pedagogical recommendations to a constructive development of self-awereness of pupils. The article was written with the support of Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation, project 15-06-10726 (а).

scholarly journals Roman Numerals in Spanish Primary Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Alberto Regagliolo
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Concrete Objects ◽  
Positive Results

Abstract This article illustrates the importance of teaching Roman numerals, a component of a Latin language programme, as part of a Maths curriculum in a Spanish primary school. The aim is to contextualise the topic with concrete examples, supported by ancient Roman objects such as the milestone. The author discusses the relevance of a more integrated cross-curricular lesson to teach Roman numerals so that students better understand their use and make comparisons between ancient Roman and more modern traditions and culture, and to understand Roman influences on the modern age. Lastly, the author describes a teaching experiment in a Spanish primary school using some ad hoc materials to fulfil the aim of the study. The study outlines the positive results of integrating Roman numerals within the Maths lesson and shows that the students gained a richer and more valuable learning experience as they made reference to the concrete objects.

THE NATURE-BASED SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL APPROACH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILD: A NECESSARY RELATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Svetlana Angelova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Child ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Elementary School Child ◽  
Modern Vision ◽  
Primary School Age ◽  
Emotional Approach

The article presents the Nature-based socio-emotional approach and science education for primary school child as a necessary relation on two levels. At the conceptual level the approach is analysed through the prism of the cumulative effects of nature and society to the cognitive and socio-emotional development of the child’s personality: in primary school age cognitive and emotional-volitional mental processes are socially predetermined and have the essence of a result. At the applied level, the Nature-based socio-emotional approach is analysed through active learning in nature as an authentic learning environment – the focus is on the acquisition of knowledge, the formation of cognitive and socio-emotional skills to overcome consumer culture and sustainable development of nature. In this regard, the effects of active learning are viewed in sync with the learning environment, which collectively generate added value to learning and become a kind of „key“ to creating a modern vision of science education in primary school today .

Assimilation of the concept of numeric expression in teaching primary school mathematics

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivanka Georgieva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Primary School Mathematics ◽  
Mathematical Problems

The concept of numeric expression is a basic one in teaching mathematics. It is introduced and assimilated in primary school. This concept is a component of many other concepts and problems in school course of mathematics. That is why discussing and analyzing the process of understanding and assimilating the notion of numeric expression is of great importance both to the teachers and pupils. The present study focuses on some key activities and groups of problems aiming at mastering pupils’ abilities to solve various mathematical problems, to overcome some difficulties and prevent from making mistakes in finding the ways of solving different problems and doing so to enrich their knowledge in mathematics.

scholarly journals Public health policies as guides for local public policies: the experience of Sobral-Ceará, Brazil

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 28-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Odorico Monteiro Andrade ◽  
Ivana Cristina de Holanda Cunha Bareta ◽  
Cid Ferreira Gomes ◽  
Ondina Maria Chagas Canuto
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
The North ◽  
Municipal Policies ◽  
Family Health Strategy

The accelerated urbanisation process that Brazil has gone through in the last 50 years has given rise to daunting challenges for public managers, especially in terms of local public policy management for the building of “healthy cities”. In Sobral, a municipality of 173,000 inhabitants in Ceará in the North-eastern region of Brazil, a number of municipal policies were initiated beginning in 1997, many in partnership with the federal and state governments. They were inspired by the vision of a healthy and equitable city and were marked by strategic planning and the implementation of intersectoral projects. This article lays out some of the actions and their results, including an increase in the public supply of drinking water from 65% to 97% of households; an increase in sewage networks from 7% to 65%; an increase in public refuse collection from 42% to 90%; the expansion of green areas; the construction of nine kilometres of bicycle paths; the universalisation of integral health care through the Family Health Strategy through a network with specialised out-patient and hospital services; and a 148% increase in the number of children enrolled in primary school. These initiatives also resulted in the improvement of quality of life indicators, including a reduction in infant mortality from 61.4 to 19.0 per thousand live births, a drop in the mortality rate from traffic accidents from 33.40 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2001 to 15.25 in 2003; and a jump in literacy rates among children in the first cycle of primary school from 40 to 90.7%. In the present article, the authors describe some of the successful strategies and projects initiated between 1997 and 2003, and discuss how this experience could be reproduced in other communities across Brazil and around the world.

scholarly journals Primary school students’ poetic malaria messages from Jimma zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: a qualitative content analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohannes Kebede ◽  
Abdu Hayder ◽  
Kasahun Girma ◽  
Fira Abamecha ◽  
Guda Alemayehu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Jimma Zone ◽  
Itn Use ◽  
Prevention Methods

Abstract Background The engagement of schools in malaria control is an emerging strategy. Little is known about the involvement of students in the development of malaria messages. This study evaluated the message content of primary school students’ malaria poems. Methods A qualitative content analysis was conducted to explore malaria messages conveyed in poems produced by students. Twenty poems were purposively selected from twenty schools across rural villages in five districts of the Jimma Zone. Data were analyzed using Atlas.ti version 7.1.4 software. The message contents were quantified in terms of frequency, and including metaphors, presented using central themes, categories, and supportive quotations. Results A total of 602 malarial contents were generated, and organized into 21 categories under five central themes. 1) Malaria-related knowledge (causation and modes of transmission, mosquito breeding and biting behavior, signs and symptoms, care for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), and prevention methods), 2) Perceived threats from malaria, 3)The effectiveness of prevention methods (i.e., related to the adaption of ITNs, environmental cleaning, indoor residual spray (IRS), treatment for fever, and drug adherence practices), 4) Misconceptions, beliefs, and malpractices regarding the cause of malaria and drug use) and 5) Direct calls to the adopt ITN, IRS, clean surroundings, treatment, and drug use. The most commonly conveyed message contents were about the severity of malaria, distinguishable signs and symptoms, calls for community participation for malaria elimination, knowledge of preventive methods, and effectiveness of ITN use. Metaphoric expressions (war and death) were used to convey messages about the severity and the need to manage the prognosis of malaria through the active ITN use, which itself was metaphorically represented as ‘a trap’ to mosquitoes. Conclusions The poetic analysis indicated that the students developed and disseminated rich malarial messages, especially on malarial knowledge, and perceptions, beliefs, norms and practices of the local community to prevent and control malaria. Therefore, primary school students can be a source of information and would effectively communicate knowledge, perceptions, and promote malaria related practices, particularly in rural settings.

scholarly journals A Content Analysis of the Concepts and Images of the Physical Aging Primary School Textbooks in Iran

Salmand ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 154-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Eftekhari ◽  
Farhad Nosrati Nejad ◽  
Robabeh Sahhaf ◽  
Nosaybeh Zanjari
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Physical Aging
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