scholarly journals How can we illustrate the usefulness of the differential calculus course taught in a technical university

Educatia 21 ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Ștefania Constantinescu ◽  
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Rodica-Mihaela Dăneț ◽  
Marian-Valentin Popescu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Differential Calculus ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Mathematical Skills ◽  
Mathematics Courses ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Solution Methodology

Working in a challenging academic environment as mathematics professors for the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, we thought to find a teaching strategy that, in addition to the required standard, but also has the standard of attractiveness and accessibility. Why? This is due to the fact that our students have a very nonhomogeneous level of knowledge and logical-mathematical skills. That's how we came up with the idea of organizing each lesson in our courses in a gradual way, and completing them with an informal part. On the other hand, we set out to collaborate with professors working in the departments of other natural sciences or in engineering departments, enriching the mathematics courses with technical applications. This has led to write several didactic works, which also include such applications. Proving the usefulness of this courses, our new work offers two such technical applications for the mathematical analysis course, taught in the first semester and dedicated to the differential calculus of functions having one or several variables. More precisely, we present in a gradual way, two applications solved by using the mathematical modelling: a problem belonging to electricity and then, the cruising speed problem. The gradual presentation begins, for each of these problems, with the necessary notions (organized in the form of two dictionaries, for Math and for Physics, respectively), continues with the statement of the problem, with the solution methodology, and finally, with the solution itself. Our presentation will provide students with a model of logical (mathematical) approach, useful to them in the courses of other natural sciences and of engineering disciplines that they will study later. In addition, it will prove them why mathematics is a fundamental discipline for the engineering education.

scholarly journals Kindergarten teachers' representations for their socio-cognitive practices during the Natural Sciences activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-181
Author(s):  
Aikaterini DRAGANOUDI ◽  
George KALIAMPOS ◽  
Konstantinos LAVIDAS
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Cognitive Influences ◽  
Research Analysis

Abstract: The aim of the current paper is to investigate the traces of socio-cognitive influences in kindergarten teachers’ representations about the practices they tend to follow when they develop Natural Sciences activities in kindergarten. A quantitative approach was used, with the research tool being an electronic questionnaire that was completed online by 94 kindergarten teachers served in public Kindergartens. The questionnaire was firstly used in a pilot survey where receiving feedback it was further developed for the main research. Research analysis showed that kindergarten teachers’ representations concerning their teaching choices and actions of their students are characterized by practices that are influenced by the socio-cognitive teaching strategy. These practices are followed from both teachers and their students from moderate to large extent.

scholarly journals Practice Model of Read-Examine-Decide-Write Strategy In Strengthening Students’ Reading Comprehension

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fitrotul Mufaridah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Practice Model ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Reading Text

Teaching reading in ESP Class is a challenging work not only for the English teacher but also for the students of Islamic Education Program or PAI of University of Muhammadiyah Jember. Teacher should be selective and creative in implementing teaching strategy in order to encourage students to comprehend reading text and communicate their understanding in the target language. The implementation of Read-Examine-Decide-Write (REDW) Strategy was done in ESP class of PAI. Read-Examine-Decide-Write Strategy was found as a good solution to teach them reading comprehension. By grouping the students in pair, they did their learning effectively through the steps of REDW. 75.8% or 22 of 29 students got score ≥ 75. They were active in comprehending the text through steps of REDW. The research result showed that Read-Examine-Decide-Write Strategy was able to improve PAI students’ reading comprehension in the first semester of 2015-2016 Academic Year.Keywords: reading comprehension, read-examine-decide-write strategy

scholarly journals Educational Inclusion through the Universal Design for Learning: Alternatives to Teacher Training

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Diaz-Vega ◽  
Ricardo Moreno-Rodriguez ◽  
Jose Luis Lopez-Bastias
Keyword(s):  
Universal Design ◽  
Universal Design For Learning ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Universal Design For Instruction ◽  
Design For Learning ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Educational Inclusion

Universal design for instruction (UDI) is a teaching strategy that has proved its value in the process of educational inclusion, resulting in a fundamental tool for the achievement of objective 4 of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. The lack of time of university professors and the scarce training offered in this subject make it difficult to know and implement UDI in university classrooms, increasing the risk of exclusion of students with some kind of disability. This study analyses the level of knowledge and implementation of the principles and strategies of UDI by university professors. Those professors did not have prior training, but they had access to the Curricular Adaptations of University Students with Special Educational Needs (CAUSSEN) tool as guide to implement different guidelines. The CAUSSEN tool is a document, developed by the Unit of Attention to People with Disability, in which there is information about UDI guidelines and accommodations referring to students with special educational needs. Results show a wide implementation of the UDI principles, despite the low level of previous knowledge its principles. This study concludes that there are practical alternatives to the lack of training, and that teachers’ self-perception of their own effectiveness and ability to cope with the inclusion of all students should be strengthened.

Motivation of Medical Students to Study Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 103-108
Author(s):  
Eva Kralova
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Medical Diagnostic

Natural sciences and their applications (medical biophysics, medical chemistry and medical biology) represent an inevitable part of medical curriculum. They are often negatively evaluated and a lack of motivation to their study is observed. The attitudes of medical students towards natural sciences are influenced by their negative experiences from the previous study. Nevertheless, knowledge from the natural sciences represents the necessary basis for better understanding of the basic principles of the medical diagnostic and therapeutic methods. Therefore, the indispensable role of natural science teachers is to achieve positive attitudes and motivate students to study them. Our research project is focused on the identification and subsequent application of motivating approaches in natural sciences teaching. Pedagogical investigation using anonymous questionnaires was done with the aim to specify respondents’ (first year students of Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Medicine) motivation and attitudes towards teaching and learning natural sciences before starting medicine study and after the first semester of medicine study. Keywords: University medical education, student’s motivation, natural sciences.

La sémiotique de Greimas: Une épistémologie (discursive) immanente

Semiotica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (219) ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Waldir Beividas
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
The World ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

AbstractThe concept of immanence occupies today a central and, at the same time, uncomfortable place among semioticians. Some criticize it overtly, others feel the concept has fulfilled its role as a methodological regulator of descriptions and its scope that should be enlarged so as to integrate context, practices, interactions, in short, the human experience. This paper presents immanence through another light. According to Hjelmslev’s Prolegomena, after having suspended transcendent data in the name of methodological immanence – as “the price that had to be paid to elicit from language itself its secret” – “immanence and transcendence are joined in a higher unity on the basis of immanence.” From the methodological level, we move up to the epistemological level of knowledge, whose main thesis condenses its reach: language is the form by which we conceive the world. Greimas also has piercing formulations in this sense. He embraces the immanent methodology and presents his semiotics as an immanent epistemology of knowledge. In this sense, he proposes that science in its entirety is one single language, where the natural sciences operate on the expression plane and the humanities operate on the content plane of this macro-language.

scholarly journals Application of Concrete Pros in Improving Science Learning Results Simple Electricity Circuit Material at Elementary School

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
Rudi Hartono
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Learning Science ◽  
Electrical Circuits ◽  
First Semester ◽  
School Year ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Improve Student Achievement

<p><em>This study aims to motivate and improve student achievement in grade VI SD Negeri Malahayu 03 in learning science about simple electrical circuits. The low evaluation results are usually related to student behavior during learning. For example, students often go in and out of class alternately, talk to themselves, and do not dare to ask questions to the teacher when they have difficulties. To achieve success in learning in a class, it is necessary to use appropriate learning methods and use of teaching aids. Teaching aids that encourage students to be active in the learning process of Natural Sciences are concrete teaching aids. Based on the data of grade VI students of SD Negeri  Malahayu 03 who achieved the Minimum Completeness Criteria, from 44 students there were 19 students (43%) in the pre-cycle to 31 students (71%) in the first cycle and 40 students (100%) in the second cycle. The conclusion of this study shows that learning with concrete media can improve science learning outcomes for grade VI students of SD Negeri Malahayu 03, Banjarharjo District, Brebes Regency in the first semester of the 2019/2020 school year.</em></p>

scholarly journals The Effect of the Strategies of Multiple-Intelligences and Six Hats Strategies and Problem Solving in the Development of Eighth Grader's Scientific Thinking Skills in Jordan.

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feras Al Sulaiti ◽  
Khaled Mifdy
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Multiple Intelligence ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Significant Interaction Effect ◽  
First Semester ◽  
The Impact

This study aimed to reveal the impact of the strategies of multiple intelligences, problem solving, and the six hats on the development of scientific thinking skills among students in eighth grade in Jordan. The study took place in the first semester 2010-2011. The sample consisted of (217) students who were divided into three groups for boys and three for girls. The sample was a stratified random sample. The first group was taught according to the strategy of multiple intelligence, and the second group according to the strategy of problem-solving, while the third was taught according to the strategy of the six hats. Researchers prepared a test to measure the level of scientific thinking among members of the study. The instrument included five areas. The results of the study were: There were statistically significant differences between the average score of students who studied according to the six hats and the average score of students who studied according to the multiple intelligence, and problem solving in favor of the former group. Females outscored males (p ≤ .05) There was no significant interaction effect between teaching strategy and gender at (p ≤ 0.05). 

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