scholarly journals Teaching mathematics with mobile devices and the Realistic Mathematical Education (RME) approach in kindergarten

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Stamatios Papadakis ◽  
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Michail Kalogiannakis ◽  
Nicholas Zaranis ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Smart Mobile

Nowadays, smart mobile devices such as tablets and accompanying applications (apps) are a part of young children's daily lives. In kindergarten education, properly designed digital educational activities can become a potent educational tool for efficient and effective learning. These tools allow children to take advantage of new learning platforms and effectively reach new knowledge through activities related to their immediate interests and real-life scenarios in learning domains, such as mathematics. At the Department of Preschool Education, University of Crete, systematic research was carried out in the last years to investigate whether there are compelling benefits to using tablet-type devices in preschool education to implement teaching reform proposals to implement the Realistic Mathematical Education in kindergarten classrooms. The findings propose mobile devices' integration, running developmentally appropriate apps, in kindergarten classrooms. These apps were based on the three levels of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), targeting fundamental mathematical concepts for the kindergarten level.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN PENDEKATAN CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING (CTL) DALAM UPAYA MENINGKATKAN PEMAHAMAN KONSEP MATEMATIKA SISWA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minarni Minarni
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Contextual Teaching

This research is motivated by the large number of students who find it difficult to understand the concept of mathematics because generally mathematics is an abstract subject so that the teacher must strive for learning to be concrete by applying learning that can relate the concept to the real life of students. One of the efforts is to apply a contextual teaching and learning approach to present learning that is full of abstract concepts to have a close relationship with students' daily lives. This type of research is a classroom action research conducted in class IV / A SDN 003 Sungai Salak. The number of research subjects was 24 students. The instrument used to analyze students' conceptual understanding used a multiple choice concept comprehension test. The results showed that students' understanding of mathematical concepts in the first cycle was 68.61 with 17 students who completed or 70.83%. In cycle II students' understanding of mathematical concepts increased to 71.11 with classical completeness of 83.33% where as many as 20 students were able to achieve the specified completeness. The conclusion based on the results of this study is that the application of the contextual teaching and learning approach can improve the understanding of the mathematical concepts of grade IV / A students of SDN 003 Sungai Salak on the subject of circumference and area of simple flat shapes.

Daily Journals Connect Mathematics to Real Life

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 526-531
Author(s):  
Lillie R. Albert ◽  
Jennifer Antos
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Real World ◽  
Journal Writing ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Writing Project ◽  
Know How ◽  
Inclusion Classroom

Why are we learning this? Why do we have to know how to do this? When are we ever going to use this outside of class?” Do these questions sound familiar to you? Students in mathematics classes commonly ask these questions when they are unable to make connections between what they are learning in the classroom and their daily lives. This article discusses the importance of relating mathematics to students' everyday lives. When children make connections between the real world and mathematical concepts, mathematics becomes relevant to them. As mathematics becomes relevant, students become more motivated to learn and more interested in the learning process. This article describes a journal-writing project developed in a fifth-grade total-inclusion classroom and specifies the major features of the writing project, including the framework used to assess student learning.

Integration of Activities of Mathematical Education and Language Development in Preschool Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-204
Author(s):  
Mirjana M. Stakić ◽  
Sanja M. Maričić
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
The World ◽  
And Mathematics

This chapter will explain through concrete examples of literature for children how the same literary text through activities of speech exercises (lexical, semantic, and syntactic), enables their speech development, and contributes to the enrichment of the active lexical fund, and on the other hand, it creates a real context for the development of mathematical concepts. The literary text contributes to the visualization of mathematical concepts, which ensures transition from concrete to abstract concepts and ideas, and mathematical concepts become more acceptable as a result of their clarity and intelligibility. The mentioned activities, in addition to their educational function, build and acquire knowledge that is adopted with understanding in a real context familiar to their concept of the world, give rise to the development of children's imagination, inventiveness, creativity, inquiring mind, and autonomy, and make children grow fond of literature and mathematics from the earliest age.

scholarly journals Konsep luas daerah bangun datar sederhana melalui artefak Candi Borobudur untuk matematika sekolah dasar

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azamul Fadhly Noor Muhammad ◽  
Marsigit Marsigit ◽  
Soeharto Soeharto
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
School Level ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Flat Shape

Perubahan penting dalam pengajaran matematika perlu dilakukan untuk mengakomodasi perubahan berkelanjutan dalam demografi siswa di kelas rendah Sekolah Dasar pada kompetensi matematika. Guru harus mengkontekstualisasikan pembelajaran matematika dengan menghubungkan konten matematika dengan budaya dan pengalaman kehidupan nyata siswa kelas rendah pada tingkat Sekolah Dasar. Konsep matematika yang diajarkan di sekolah dasar ada hubungannya dengan pengalaman pribadi siswa dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Sepanjang sejarah, matematika telah digunakan oleh orang-orang yang berbeda dalam berbagai cara. Aritmatika dan geometri digunakan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan sehari-hari masyarakat baik dalam budaya maupun sosial. Etnomatematika didefinisikan sebagai cara orang-orang dari berbagai budaya menggunakan matematika dalam kehidupan sehari-hari mereka. Konsep-konsep pembelajaran matematika yang dipelajari oleh siswa sekolah dasar adalah baru sebatas bangun datar sederhana. Luas bangun-bangun datar sembarang yang bentuknya tidak teratur atau panjang sisinya tidak sama, sebenarnya dapat ditelusuri melalui pemindahan atau pembentukan bagian-bagian bangun datar tersebut agar menyerupai bangun datar utamanya.The concept of the simple plane area through Borobudur Temple artifacts for elementary school mathematicsAbstractImportant changes in mathematics teaching need to be made to accommodate the continuing changes in the demographics of students in the lower grades of Primary Schools in mathematics competence. Teachers must contextualize mathematics learning by linking mathematics content to the culture and real-life experiences of low-grade students at the Elementary School level. Mathematical concepts taught in elementary schools have to do with students' personal experiences in everyday life. Throughout history, mathematics has been used by different people in a variety of ways. Arithmetic and geometry are used to meet the daily needs of society both culturally and socially. Ethnomathematics is defined as the way people from different cultures use mathematics in their daily lives. Mathematics learning concepts learned by elementary school students are just a simple flat shape. The area of any flat shape whose shape is irregular or the length of the sides is not the same can actually be traced through the removal or formation of the parts of the shape so that it resembles the main shape.

Examining User Perception and Usage of Voice Search

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Ning Sa ◽  
Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
User Perception ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Search Systems

AbstractWith the development of mobile technologies, voice search is becoming increasingly important in our daily lives. By investigating the general usage of voice search and user perception about voice search systems, this research aims to understand users’ voice search behavior. We are particularly interested in how users perform voice search, their topics of interest, and their preference toward voice search. We elicit users’ opinions by asking them to fill out an online survey. Results indicated that participants liked voice search because it was convenient. However, voice search was used much less frequently than keyboard search. The success rate of voice search was low, and the participants usually gave up voice search or switched to keyboard search. They tended to perform voice search when they were driving or walking. Moreover, the participants mainly used voice search for simple tasks on mobile devices. The main reasons why participants disliked voice search are attributed to the system mistakes and the fact that they were unable to modify the queries.

The Effect of User Experience on Designing Interactive Tool: A Case Study of Learning Images Compression

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1312-1320
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Mathematical Concept ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Mathematical Explanation ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
The Common ◽  
Value Decomposition

Technology has significantly emerged in various fields, including healthcare, government, and education. In the education field, students of all ages and backgrounds turn to modern technologies for learning instead of traditional methods, especially under challenging courses such as mathematics. However, students face many problems in understanding mathematical concepts and understanding how to benefit from them in real-life. Therefore, it can be challenging to design scientific materials suitable for learning mathematics and clarifying their applications in life that meet the students’ preferences. To solve this issue, we designed and developed an interactive platform based on user experience to learn an advanced concept in the idea of linear algebra called Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and its applicability in image compression. The proposed platform considered the common design principles to map between the provider in terms of clear mathematical explanation and the receiver in terms of matching good user experience. Twenty participants between the ages of 16 and 30 tested the proposed platform. The results showed that learning using it gives better results than learning traditionally in terms of the number of correct and incorrect actions, effectiveness, efficiency, and safety factors. Consequently, we can say that designing an interactive learning platform to explain an advanced mathematical concept and clarify its applications in real-life is preferable by considering and following the common design principles.

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