Television, Games, and Mathematics

Author(s):  
Sandra Crespo ◽  
Vincent Melfi ◽  
Shalom M. Fisch ◽  
Richard A. Lesh ◽  
Elizabeth Motoki

Research has shown that educational media, such as television series or interactive games, can promote significant learning. However, it is quite common for producers to create several interconnected media, such as a television show and an associated web site, under the assumption that multiple platforms elicit greater learning than a single medium would. The research reported in this paper uses Cyberchase media as the setting in which to investigate the effectiveness of multiple media as a tool for mathematical learning for elementary school children. The study includes both a naturalistic phase, which mirrors children’s typical use of the media, and an experimental phase, which allows for causal inference to be drawn about their learning outcomes.

Author(s):  
Sandra Crespo ◽  
Vincent Melfi ◽  
Shalom M. Fisch ◽  
Richard A. Lesh ◽  
Elizabeth Motoki

Research has shown that educational media, such as television series or interactive games, can promote significant learning. However, it is quite common for producers to create several interconnected media, such as a television show and an associated web site, under the assumption that multiple platforms elicit greater learning than a single medium would. The research reported in this paper uses Cyberchase media as the setting in which to investigate the effectiveness of multiple media as a tool for mathematical learning for elementary school children. The study includes both a naturalistic phase, which mirrors children’s typical use of the media, and an experimental phase, which allows for causal inference to be drawn about their learning outcomes.


Author(s):  
David Adger ◽  
Coppe van Urk

This chapter reports on three distinct implementations of conlang projects: one for elementary school children aged 5–10 that was developed with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, one as a one-week summer program for secondary students aged about 15, as part of Queen Mary University’s Widening Participation initiative, and one for university students at Queen Mary College that was based on Adger’s experience creating languages for a television series. For each project, the development process, learning outcomes, and project mechanics are described. The projects vary considerably in structure and focus, and are shown to benefit students at all educational levels.


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-119
Author(s):  
Terri L. Kurz

iSTEM: Integrating Science Technology Engineering in the Mathematics authors share ideas and activities that stimulate student interest in the integrated fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in K'grade 6 classrooms. In this month's lesson, elementary school children in the primary grades learn to create symmetrical structures using wooden blocks. Student interviews and an observational rubric are used to assess the children. Extensions for intermediate elementary grades are provided.


1971 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-145

The Plus Program was designed to provide a maximum amount of remedial work in reading and mathematics for elementary school children in target areas. A staff of skilled teachers was employed to provide students with additional small-group and individual instruction in specific areas of difficulty during the regular school day.


2011 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 786-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Cowan ◽  
Chris Donlan ◽  
Donna-Lynn Shepherd ◽  
Rachel Cole-Fletcher ◽  
Matthew Saxton ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandi M. Eveland-Sayers ◽  
Richard S. Farley ◽  
Dana K. Fuller ◽  
Don W. Morgan ◽  
Jennifer L. Caputo

Background:The benefits of physical fitness are widely acknowledged and extend across many domains of wellness. The association between fitness and academic achievement, however, remains to be clarified, especially in young children. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between fitness and academic achievement in elementary school children.Methods:Data were collected from 134 third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children. One-mile run time, body mass index, curl-up, and sit-and-reach data were collected from physical education instructors in Middle Tennessee. The percentage of questions answered correctly for the mathematics and reading/language arts sections of the Terra-Nova achievement test was taken as a measure of academic achievement.Results:A negative association (P < .01) was noted between 1-mile run times and mathematics scores (r = –.28), whereas a positive relationship (P < .05) was observed between muscular fitness and mathematics scores (r = .20). Relative to sex differences, inverse relationships (P < .05) were observed between 1-mile run times and reading/language arts and mathematics scores in girls (r = –.31 and –.36, respectively), but no significant associations were evident in boys.Conclusions:Results from this study support a link between specific components of physical fitness and academic achievement in elementary school children.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-146
Author(s):  
Hidayat Nur Septiadi ◽  
Khairul Utomo ◽  
Fakhri Fakhrur Rozy ◽  
Arfian Arrosid Nurd ◽  
Alfa Rosyid Abdullah

The development of technology is increasingly rapid, teenagers are very active in using it from various sides of good and even technological workers. Part of the technology that is quite a lot of users is social media, a variety of the most widely used media such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and chat applications. Plus the number of users of each social media is increasing every day. Like technology, language will also develop rapidly, language transformation will continue to move, but there are some things that need to be considered that language must also get guidance to stay good and not shift the originality of the language itself. The survey results of researchers, on some social media such as youtube and instagram, the average video maker on social media is people who follow western culture, city people, slang and even use contemporary alay language. Next too, most elementary school children use their gadgets to play games, youtube, and play Instagram. So it is deemed necessary to examine how the impact of the media on the acquisition of new language of elementary school children is studied in psycholinguistic studies.


1973 ◽  
Vol 36 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1160-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Kaltsounis ◽  
Howard G. Stephens

Comparison of scores obtained from 184 Ss in Grades 4 through 6 on Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, Verbal and Nonverbal, Form A and Seeing Through Arithmetic Tests produced significant correlations of small to moderate magnitude between verbal originality and mathematics ( rs = .23 to .43, df = 183).


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