Activities in the Secondary School

2021 ◽  
pp. 308-395
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Computational Aspect ◽  
Programming Environment ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
Construction Algorithms

With the same methodology of the previous chapter, in this chapter there is an outline of vertical path about geometric topics typical of the secondary school. Of course, the algorithm and computational aspect in the MatCos 3.X environment are more developed with respect to classical arguments, surely of interest. In particular, the presentation of conics in both the Euclidean and Cartesian plan is emphasized, based on construction algorithms by points, which can be easily implemented in the MatCos 3.X programming environment. Even solid geometry, or in three dimensions, will be characterized by effective construction algorithms of the solid figures presented. Some of these algorithms are general in nature.

The 17th Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

1936 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-192
Author(s):  
Edwin W. Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New York ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Mathematical Society ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Annual Business ◽  
National Council ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Solid Geometry

The Seventeenth Annual Meeting ofthe National Council of Teachers of Mathematics was held in St. Louis, Missouri, December 31, 1935 to January 1, 1936. This is the first annual meeting the National Council has held with the A.A.A.S. One hundred eighty-four registered for the meetings though the total attendance was well in excess of two hundred. A joint session with Section A of the A.A.A.S., the American Mathematical Society, and the Mathematical Association of America, was held on Tuesday morning, December 31, with approximately 250 in attendance. Professor Kenncth P. Williams of I ndiana University presented a temporary report of the Joint Commission on the Place of Mathematics in the Secondary School. “The Main Purposes and Objectives in Teaching High School Mathematics” was discussed by William Betz of Rochester, New York, representing the National Council, and W. W. Hart, representing the Mathematical Association of America. On Tuesday afternoon the National Council presented a Symposium on the Teaching of Geomcetry. Professor W. H. Roever of Washington University, St. Louis, discussed in a very thorough manner the 11Purpose, Nature, and use of Pictures in the Teaching of Solid Geometry.” John T. Rule, the Taylor School, Clayton, Missouri, presented an interesting paper on “Stereoscopy as an Aid to the Teaching of Solid Geometry.” The session closed with a stimulating discussion by Rolland R. Smith, Classical High School, Springfield, Mass., on “Developing the Meaning of Demonstration in Geometry.” The Tuesday evening session was opened by an address of welcome by the Rev. Father Robert S. Johnston, President of St. Louis University. The response was made by Miss Edith Woolsey of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Professor Edwin W. Schreiber, State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois, presented an illustrated lecture on “The History of the Development of the Metric System.” Miss Ruth Lane, University High School, Iowa City, Iowa, presented an illuminating paper on “Mathematical Recreations, an Aid or a Relief?” On Wednesday morning, J anuary 1, the Annual Business session of the National Council was held. At this session Professor H. E. Slaught of the University of Chicago was honored in being elected Honorary President of the National Council. Secretary Schreiber as Chairman of the Ballot Committee announced the results of the annual election: President—Miss Martha Hildebrandt, Proviso Township High School, Maywood, Illinois; second Vice President-Miss Mary Kelly, Wichita, Kansas; three new members of the Board of Directors—E. R. Breslich, Chicago, Illinois, Leonard D. Haertter, Clayton, Missouri, and Virgil S. Mallory, Montclair, New Jersey. The morning session closed with two interesting papers: “Functiona! Thinking and Teaching in Secondary School Mathematics” by Professor H. C. Christofferson, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; and “The Crisis in Mathematics—at Rome and Abroad— by Professor William D. Reeve, Teachers

An Achievement test in Solid Geometry

1928 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Louis A. McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Good Teacher ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

In the work of teaching secondary school mathematics in a large school where there are as many as twelve different divisions of the same subject, it would be very interesting and indeed very enlightening to see the different grades of work being done. Different teachers have their own pet ways of doing things, of presenting new matter, of conducting recitations, of drilling on old matter, of developing mathematical power in their pupils, etc. And yet they are all striving for the same results. The fact that one teacher's pupils consistently attain better results naturally should put a premium on that teacher's methods, and the work of the department would be improved if some of the other teachers would take a leaf out of the successful teacher's book. Students will often remark “So and So is a good teacher; I get a lot out of his class; he makes things clear; he has good discipline; he certainly gets the stuff over, etc.”An inspector visits the class, notes the attitude of the pupils, the personality and skill of the teacher, and oftentimes is familiar enough with the subject matter of the recitation to see if the pupils are catching and giving back the right things, and then grades the teacher as an Al man, for example. But does the opinion of the boys themselves or the visitor answer the question whether or not the teacher is successful in giving his subject to the pupils? Don't we need something more objective, more tangible, more exact on which to pin our faith? In general the supervisors are hitting it right, also the students, but we think we can do better.

scholarly journals Views of the parents of secondary school students on supporting their children's learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-178
Author(s):  
Gülten Feryal Gündüz
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Students ◽  
Arithmetic Means ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Speaking Out ◽  
Academic Scores ◽  
Children's Learning

The aim of this research is determining the support behaviors and activities parents realized for their children’s learning and revealing it relationships with some demographical properties of parents. The translational simultaneous mixed method was used. This study in which quantitative and qualitative methods used together, firstly survey was applied and the semi-structured interviews was done. Data obtained by these data collection tools were analysed simultenously. The participants of this study are 360 parents who are parents of students studying in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades at a secondary school in İstanbul. Semi-structured interviews were realized with 43 parents chosen from these participants. The questionnaire consists of three dimensions and 66 items. In the analysis of quantitative data percentage, frequency, arithmetic means and one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) were used. Descriptive analysis was used for analysing qualitative data. According to data obtained from the research, parents realized the activities which are related to motivate their children to learning and the activities that parents do with the other education stakeholders more than the activities that parents do for helping their children’s lessons. The academical supporting activities parents do are mostly general ones. The general academical supporting activities parents stated that they do generally are following their children’s homeworks/examinations, encouraging them for studying, researching form different learning sources,  doing test, providing appropriate learning environments at home, sending their children to school courses and following their academic scores. The motivational supporting activities parents stated that they do mostly are praising their children when they achieve something, encouraging them when they couldn’t be successful in their lessons and talking about what they do at school. The activities mostly stated by parents that they realized collaboratively with other people and insititutions which are related to their children’s learning are attending parents’ meeting and speaking out their negative and positive thoughts about school and teachers. Parents’ opinions about the supporting activities they realised don’t differ according to their educational levels and occupations but they differ according to their ages. It can be said that younger parents (ages between 20 and 30) do supporting activities more than others.

scholarly journals CLASSROOM CLIMATE AS A PART OF CONTEMPORARY DIDACTICAL APPROACHES

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Majda Fiksl ◽  
Boris Aberšek
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Classroom Climate ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Lower Secondary Education ◽  
Structure Of Education

To achieve successful teaching in the 21st century school, teachers must change their didactical approaches in order to create a stimulating pro-activeness in a pleasant classroom climate for better development of student’s achievement. A classroom climate in the present research means the combination of variables within a classroom that work together to promote learning in a comfortable environment. In the present research, classroom’s climate will be evaluated, and what kind of influence different didactical approaches have on the atmosphere in the classroom. The classroom climate of two 6th grade classes at a lower secondary school will be studied: a class with traditional methods of teaching and a class with innovative methods, as regards searching for ideas, monitoring the students’ progress and giving instructions. Students in both classes filled out a questionnaire with thirteen statements, which included three dimensions of a classroom atmosphere: personal relationship, contribution to the class and research work. The results confirmed a change in the perception of the classroom climate, depending on different innovative didactical approaches. The values of individual dimensions are higher in the class with innovative methods, which was confirmed with a better atmosphere in this class and an increased activeness of the students. When introducing changes in an educational process, it is necessary to establish a positive classroom atmosphere. Key words: active learning, classroom atmosphere (climate), innovative didactical approaches, lower secondary education, structure of education.

Descriptive geometry in middle school mathematics teaching in Japan (1905-1946)

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Kei Kataoka
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Descriptive Geometry ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Meiji Restoration ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
Secondary School Curriculum ◽  
And Mathematics

Teaching of descriptive geometry began in 18th-century France and became widespread in tertiary and secondary education worldwide throughout the 19th century. Until the 20th century, educators often described two aims of descriptive geometry – technical education and mathematics education. In Japan, descriptive geometry was introduced into engineering and artistic higher education after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Descriptive geometry became part of the general secondary school curriculum in the 1880s, but it had been taught under the auspices of arts and crafts education rather than mathematics. In the early 20th century, Japanese mathematics educators began to focus on descriptive geometry as a way to reform solid geometry. When Japan’s secondary school curriculum was revised in 1942, descriptive geometry was included in solid geometry and mathematics for the first time. Although this curriculum lasted only until 1946, it was the fruit of many educators’ labors and is worthy of examination. This paper examines several books and documents from the early 20th-century Japan and shows that there was a technical, mathematics-oriented debate about the aim of descriptive geometry teaching as seen in Europe. Keywords: descriptive geometry, solid geometry, secondary school, middle school, Nobutaro Nabeshima, Minoru Kuroda

Network Theory—An Enrichment Topic

1974 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-178
Author(s):  
Charles A. Reeves
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
High School Geometry ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
School Geometry

The last decade has ushered in numerous changes in the teaching of high school geometry—changes due primarily to the impetus of curriculum committees such as the Commission on Mathematics. One trend is that of integrating plane and solid geometry “topicwise” into one course; that is, as each topic is studied in two dimensions, the concept is immediately extended to three dimensions if possible. This pedagogical technique undoubtedly helps students grasp related ideas more readily than if those ideas were presented as separate entities.

scholarly journals Organisational Justice and Organisational Commitment among Secondary School Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa S. Jameel ◽  
Yazen N. Mahmood ◽  
Swran J. Jwmaa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Interactional Justice ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Organisational Justice ◽  
Highly Correlated

Given the importance of teachers ' understanding of organizational justice and its effect on their organizational commitment, the literature of teachers and schools lacks evidence about the relations between these factors in developing countries. This research seeks to investigate the direct influence of organizational justice on teachers committed to their schools. the study consists of three dimensions of Organizational justice namely: distributive, procedural, and interactional justice as a dependent variables and organizational commitment as an independent variable. The study conducted among eight official secondary schools. However, Stratified random sampling choice depending on the total of teachers at each school, Data Collection Method was using a structured questionnaire by self-administrative. SPSS has analysed the 92 valid surveys. The results indicated there is a positive and significant relationship between Organizational justice dimensions and organizational commitment, distributive justice  found highly correlated with organizational commitment. However, the three dimensions of Organizational justice positively and significantly predicted organizational commitment among secondary school teachers. The study could provide some significant literature contributions on the Organizational justice and organizational commitment of secondary school teachers in developing countries.

scholarly journals Analisis Kemampuan Spasial Pada Bangun Ruang Sisi Datar Ditinjau Dari Perbedaan Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Sefriana Dyah Purborini ◽  
Ratri Candra Hastari
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Ability ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Spatial Skills ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Student Gender ◽  
Solid Geometry ◽  
Class Viii

Spatial ability is important in studying the solid geometry. A person who has good spatial skills will easily imagine objects in three dimensions. Factors that influence the different strength of students one of which is the gender difference. This study aims to analyze students' spatial skills judging from the student gender differences. This research is descriptive qualitative that is collecting data in the form of description or sentence. The approach of this research is a qualitative approach. Research subjects in this study consisted of 4 students of class VIII C SMP Negeri 2 Trenggalek. The technique of collecting data of this research is observation, test, and interview. Test results and interviews are analyzed based on the spatial ability, they are the ability of imagination, conceptualization, problem-solving, and pattern searching. The results showed that: male students (1) able to solve the problem using the help of images and illustrate the solution; (2) able to connect data that is known to the concept possessed; (3) able to see problems from different angles; and (4) able to find patterns in solving problems. While female students showed: (1) able to solve the problem using the help of images; (2) able to mention known concepts.Key Word: Gender, Polyhedron, Spatial Ability

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