scholarly journals Geometry Students’ Arguments About a 1-Point Perspective Drawing

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna F. DeJarnette ◽  
Gloriana Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
Geometric Diagram ◽  
The Given ◽  
Toulmin’S Model

The practice of formulating and justifying claims is a fundamental aspect of doing mathematics, and in geometry, students’ use of diagrams is integral to how they establish arguments. We applied Toulmin’s model to examine 23 geometry students’ arguments about figures included in a 1-point perspective drawing. We asked how students’ arguments drew upon their knowledge of 1-point perspective and their use of the diagram provided with the problem. Students warranted their claims based upon their knowledge of perspective, both in an artistic context as well as from experiences in everyday life. Students engaged in multiple apprehensions of the diagram, including using the given features, adding features, or measuring components, to justify claims about the figures. This study illustrates the importance of students’ prior knowledge of a context for formulating arguments, as well as how that prior knowledge is integrated with students’ use of a geometric diagram.

scholarly journals A Review of the Research on Mongolia’s Perception of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (113) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shurentana Borjgin
Keyword(s):  
External Factor ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
National Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Given

Mutual perception is an important indicator of the degree of closeness between countries, and it can more intuitively reflect the degree of mutual favorability between the two peoples and the perception of each other's national image. Mongolia's perception of China is an important fundamental aspect in the bilateral relations. This article reviews and examines the current research status of the given topic in academic circles. In general, (1) The public opinion surveys of some research institutes on Mongolia’s perception of China are relatively objective and neutral, so their survey results have higher reference value and application value. (2) Regarding the specific studies of Mongolia’s perception of China, some studies are relatively neutral, objective and of keen insights, and some are difficult to divorce from the perspective of the ‘self’ or the western interpretation mode, often presuppose their positions and tend to place too much emphasis on historical and cultural factors. Mongolia's perception of China is the result of the interaction of various factors mainly including history, emotion/psychology, realistic issues, and external factor. Хятадын талаарх монголчуудын ойлголтын тухай судалгааны тойм Хураангуй: Монголчуудын Хятадын талаарх ойлголтын тухай асуудал бол хоёр улсын харилцааны чухал сэдвийн нэг байдаг. Энэхүү өгүүлэл нь академик судалгааны хүрээнд уг сэдвийн судалгааны өнөөгийн байдлыг ангилан дүгнэж харуулах юм. Ерөнхийдөө: (1) судалгааны байгууллагуудын монголчуудын Хятадыг танин мэдэх ойлголттой холбоотой тоо баримт санал асуулга харьцангуй бодитой, тийм учраас судалгааны үр дүн хэрэглээний ач холбогдол өндөр гэж үзэж болно. (2) Хятадын талаарх монголчуудын ойлголтын тухай нарийвчилсан судалгаанаас харахад, зарим судалгаа харьцангуй бодитой төвийг сахисан, гүнзгийрүүлж судалсан байдаг ч зарим судалгаа нь нэг талыг барьсан, соёл хоорондын мөргөлдөөний онолоор тайлбарлаж, анхнаасаа байр суурь дүгнэлт нь тодорхой, хэт түүх соёлын хүчин зүйлийг дөвийлгөсөн шинжтэй байдаг. Монголчуудын Хятадыг танин мэдэх ойлголт нь түүх, сэтгэл зүй, бодит нөхцөл байдал, гадаад хүчин зүйлс зэргийн харилцан үйлчлэлийн үр дүнд бүрэлдсэн юм. Түлхүүр үгс: Монгол, Хятадыг танин мэдэх ойлголт, судалгаа, онцлог

scholarly journals The New Normal and Covid-19 in Serbia from February to May 2020.

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojan Žikić ◽  
Mladen Stajić ◽  
Marko Pišev
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Critical Event ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
The Given

The situation caused by the appearance of Covid-19 can be viewed as a critical event: typologically, it is an unprecedented event, which requires and shapes new forms of historical action hitherto unknown in the given context. Critical events serve as strong value and emotional landmarks in the cultural cognition of each social environment, and form the basis for a meaningful determination towards other events. Using material collected primarily from the online versions of electronic and printed media, we consider how the reality they presented is shaped through the news through the statements of politicians and medical doctors in Serbia. We trace how the narrative transformation of socio-cultural reality took place from the time before the of Covid-19 outbreak in our country to the time immediately after the lifting of the state of emergency declared due to that infection. The premise of all that is being done to tackle the infection is not a purpose in itself, but aims to enable a return to the life we were accustomed to before the outbreak of the epidemic. Covid-19 destabilizes our everyday life – a life that consists of work or study, use of free time, socializing etc. Such everyday life is a reference point of "normalcy". Socio-cultural normalcy refers to all that is understood as a normal and undisturbed course of everyday life. The appearance of Covid-19 gave rise to the notion of the "new normal", that is, a course of everyday life that is similar to normal, ordinary life, but with adherence to measures aimed at preventing the spread of infection by the authorities. In the paper we deal with the period that begins just before the outbreak of Covid-19 in our country, and ends with the period after the lifting of the state of emergency, to show the discursively produced picture of social reality in which the concept of the "new normal" serves as a cultural cognitive tool for understanding a situation in which one has to live with Covid-19 in order to one day be able to return to the way of life that existed before it.

scholarly journals LA SCIENZA DEI MATERIALI

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Papagni
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Organic Polymers ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Application Potential ◽  
Low Costs

Materials Science represents the natural convergence of hard scientific disciplines such as Physics Mathematics and Chemistry whom synergic contribution to its definition and evolution is at the basis of huge technologic development observed during the last few decades. The wide variety of materials under investigation by this discipline is both strategic for the economy of a Nation as well as a fundamental aspect of everyday life. Among the most relevant ones so far proposed, many advanced materials are organic-based or, in other words, constituted by molecules or organic polymers, not only for their application potential, low costs and preparation flexibility but also for their processability and limited environmental impact.

Love of Wisdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. B. North
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Specific Subject ◽  
The Public ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Given ◽  
Instrumental View

Philosophy as the love of wisdom is informative and can be inspiring and generative to students; it opens up possibilities for philosophical thinking to be more relevant for everyday life. Highlighting philosophy as the love of wisdom emphasizes the ancient and deep-rooted value of philosophy and does not restrict philosophy to the use of specific methodologies or to a specific subject matter, but rather expands it to encompassing a way of life. In this way, philosophy is meant to help promote valuable human lives and the public good at large. Philosophy as the love of wisdom is a call to remember that philosophy is not only a discipline to be studied in academia. Plato’s Socrates can be interpreted as a paragon of philosophy as a way of life and as exemplifying a love of wisdom. Contrary to philosophy as the love of wisdom, the popular conception of philosophy—as the paramount use of logic and argumentation—can be alienating. The scholastic or instrumental view of education promotes this popular conception and conceptually segregates the different academic disciplines. When this occurs, education is not seen as continuous with life. To move beyond the narrow and popular conception of philosophy, it is helpful to look at how explicitly connects philosophy and education: when considering the many different types of education, one should not forget the ethical value of the given intellectual pursuits. This opens up space for the peripheries of philosophy to be more centralized. Emotion, art, and practical considerations of everyday life are illuminated as the material of philosophic thinking. Philosophy is the lived love of wisdom.

scholarly journals Disaster Storytelling: Extending the Memory of the Community Toward Disaster Preparedness from Myth, Scientific Explanation, and Popular Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-233
Author(s):  
Eko Prawoto ◽  
◽  
Linda Octavia
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Tectonic Plates ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Common Thread

Disasters are likely to regularly occur in Indonesia since it is geographically located in the area known as the Ring of Fire, and is surrounded by many volcanoes, which float above several constantly moving pieces of tectonic plates. Disaster cycles transcend over generations and can be very long. Thus, it is very important to convey knowledge on disasters across generations since this information will affect the possibility of human survival should a disaster occur. How can we convey this information across generations? Are myths more effective than scientific explanations, or is it the other way around? Should we use both? How does a myth look like in our modern times? This study describes a number of myths – originating in several Indonesian locations, such as Yogyakarta, Palu, Sigi, Donggala, Banten, and Simeulue – so that a common thread can be drawn to obtain an effective way of conveying myths to future generations. From survivors’ stories of disasters, it seems that these accounts depend on their prior knowledge. Thus, it is important for the local story to be understood, so that it stays in the memory of the community, and can be narrated as a part of their everyday life. Thus, in accordance with the local community’s culture, it is essential to provide appropriate educational media on the risks of disasters and efforts to save themselves, should a disaster actually occur.

Students' Strategies for Fair Shares

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-135
Author(s):  
Shannon O. S. Driskell
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Middle Grades ◽  
Rational Numbers ◽  
Computational Fluency ◽  
Informal Knowledge ◽  
Whole Number ◽  
Fraction Concepts ◽  
Fair Shares

Children often begin to construct an informal understanding of fractions before entering school as they learn to share their crayons or snacks fairly with friends. NCTM (2000) recommends that teachers recognize and build on each child's informal knowledge of fractions during grades K–2. In grades 3–5, children should be actively engaged in constructing conceptual knowledge about fraction concepts, with an emphasis on computational fluency as they progress into grades 6–8. The NCTM (2000) further suggests that “The study of rational numbers in the middle grades should build on students' prior knowledge of whole-number concepts and skills and their encounter with fractions, decimals, and percents in lower grades and in everyday life” (p. 215).

Rat Diaries

ARTMargins ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-100
Author(s):  
Shady El-Noshokaty
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Emotional Content ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Support Structure ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Abstract Shapes ◽  
The Given

Rat Diaries is a series of drawings that attempts to map the intensity of everyday life in Egypt intertwined with intuitive visual and verbal comments on art practice. The drawings are multi-layered juxtapositions of various forms and contrasting types of lines that move from controlled shapes to seemingly uncontrolled scribbling, from figures to abstract shapes. What this layering achieves is a proposition of form that is ultimately unattainable. With all their pretension to ground the subject within the given coordinates of experiential reality, El-Noshokaty's maps refuse to communicate daily life as objectively mapable. The grid that is supposed to provide a support structure for the map and accommodate the given spatio-temporal coordinates is overcome by an intricacy of lines. These lines cover the grid with a labyrinthine maze and refuse to communicate an experience. But the lines are not as out of control or accidental as they might seem. While reflecting emotional content, they are also critically operational “devices” in a sense that they render the tyranny of the grid and its silent objectivity obsolete. The drawings that are accumulations of traces from experiential reality (emotions, everyday impressions, banal listing of events) crystalize reality in forms that no longer refer back to their original context.

The ethnic and non-ethnic politics of everyday life in Bulgaria's southern borderland

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Real World ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
The Given

Ethnicity is found in real-world contexts where non-ethnic forms of identification are available. This conclusion is drawn from an empirical study carried out in the multiethnic town of Kurdzhali in Southern Bulgaria, where members of the Bulgarian majority live alongside the Turkish minority. Drawing on the “everyday nationhood” agenda that aims to provide a methodological toolkit for the study of ethnicity/nationhood without overpredicting its importance, the study involved the collection of survey, interview, and ethnographic data. Against the expectations of some experienced scholars of the Central and Eastern Europe region, ethnic identity was found to be more salient for the majority Bulgarians than for the minority Turks. However, the ethnographic data revealed the importance of a rural–urban cleavage that was not predicted by the research design. On the basis of this finding, I argue that the “everyday nationhood” approach could be improved by including a complementary focus on non-ethnic attachments that have been emphasized by scholarship or journalism relevant to the given context. Rather than assuming the centrality of ethnicity, such an “everyday identifications” approach would start from the assumption that ethnic narratives of identity always have to compete with non-ethnic ones.

scholarly journals SUSRET HEIDEGGERA I WITTGENSTEINA / THE ENCOUNTER OF HEIDEGGER AND WITTGENSTEIN

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
Adem Olovčić
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Language Game ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
The Given ◽  
Practical Instrument

This paper focuses on language as a medium for a critique of the traditional metaphysical concepts, expressed in the philosophies of two contemporary philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, where the language is treated as a framework for understanding the world in a multitude of its, for philosophy significant determinants. Although Heidegger, in his philosophy, was primarily concerned about the question of the being, he seeks that sense in thought, which took him away to language, as the only place where the given questions can be examined. Considering that the truth of the being cannot be expressed in everyday, linguistically and instrumentally conceived language, Heidegger will in his thought reach the language of poetry, as place were the understanding of the truth of being and its related concepts is possible. Wittgenstein, on the other hand, will focus in philosophical thought on the problems of language, which, in his philosophy, will culminate in the notion of a language game. With this term, Wittgenstein, first of all had in mind the interconnectedness of the use of language and the life practice. Still, he did not think of a language as an everyday – practical instrument of communication, but rather, as a place where linguistic definitions of language, everyday life practices and real life events meet.  In doing so, these thinkers, through their interpretations of linguistic issues, have reached a point in which is possible to understand their encounter.

scholarly journals Robot-mediated intervention can assist children with autism to develop visual perspective taking skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Gabriella Lakatos ◽  
Luke Jai Wood ◽  
Dag Sverre Syrdal ◽  
Ben Robins ◽  
Abolfazl Zaraki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Visual Perspective ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Visual Perspective Taking ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
The World

AbstractIn this work, we tested a recently developed novel methodology to assist children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) improve their Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) and Theory of Mind (ToM) skills using the humanoid robot Kaspar. VPT is the ability to see the world from another person’s perspective, drawing upon both social and spatial information. Children with ASD often find it difficult to understand that others might have perspectives, viewpoints and beliefs that are different from their own, which is a fundamental aspect of both VPT and ToM. The games we designed were implemented as the first attempt to study if these skills can be improved in children with ASD through interacting with a humanoid robot in a series of trials. The games involved a number of different actions with the common goal of helping the children to see the world from the robot’s perspective. Children with ASD were recruited to the study according to specific inclusion criteria that were determined in a previous pilot study. In order to measure the potential impact of the games on the children, three pre- and post-tests (Smarties, Sally–Anne and Charlie tests) were conducted with the children. Our findings suggest that children with ASD can indeed benefit from this approach of robot-assisted therapy.

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