Opportunity to Learn Mathematics in Eighth-Grade Classrooms in the United States: Some Findings from the Second International Mathematics Study

2013 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Second International

A Look at the Second International Mathematics Study Results in the U.S.A. and Japan

1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 359-368
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Horvath
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mathematics Achievement ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Students ◽  
Twelfth Graders ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Second International

Japanese results from the Second International Mathematics Study (SIMS) for first-year middle school and third-year high school students appeared in Septemher 1981 under the title Chuugakkoo-Kookoo no Suugaku no Seiseki (Mathematics Achievement of Middle and High School Students). United States' results for SIMS for the eighth and twelfth graders appeared, respectively, in the April 1985 editions of the Arithmetic Teacher and Mathematics Teacher (McKnight and Travers 1985a, 1985b). More detailed results were available in a report entitled Second International Mathematics Study Summary Report for the United States of January 1985. Given the current state of thinking and interest on both sides of the Pacific in mathematics achievement, a look at some of the results for Japan in comparison with those of the United States is very timely.

Sound Off!: Computer Algebra Systems in Secondary Mathematics Classes: The Time to Act Is Now!

2002 ◽  
Vol 95 (9) ◽  
pp. 662-667
Author(s):  
M. Kathleen Heid
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Computer Algebra ◽  
Mental Arithmetic ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mathematical Understanding ◽  
Computer Algebra Systems ◽  
Paper And Pencil

Technology is giving us an opportunity to open new doors to mathematical understanding for our students, and we are failing to take advantage of that opportunity. Computer algebra systems (CASs)—and in particular, CAScapable calculators—provide ready classroom access to automated graphical, numerical, and symbolicmanipulation capabilities; and they should be as much a part of our students' mathematical repertoires as paper-and-pencil strategies or mental arithmetic. However, very few students in the United States have ever been afforded the opportunity to learn mathematics by using these tools.

scholarly journals The History of the International Twins Association (I.T.A.)

1976 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
Lavelda ◽  
Lavona Rowe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Psychology Class ◽  
History Of ◽  
One Year ◽  
Silver Lake

It is both an honor and a pleasure to stand before you today to take a small part in the First International Congress of Twin Studies.For several years, we have dreamed of someday visiting the Mendel Institute. We first became aware of Dr. Luigi Gedda's work with twins in a psychology class at the State University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1954. We are here today as Ambassadors-at-large of a rather unique organization for twins - the International Twins Association, Inc.The International Twins Association, Inc (I.T.A.) was organized By and For Twins in 1932. Rev. Edward M. Clink of Silver Lake, Indiana, U.S.A. was on a tour of the United States. He encountered several sets of twins and thought that they should get together. He and his twin sister, Elsie Clink inserted an article in several newspapers requesting twins to bring a basket dinner to Center Park in Warsaw, Indiana, on Sunday, August 29, 1932. Twenty-four sets of twins were present at that first meeting.One year later, a basket dinner was served to 200 sets of twins. And by the next year, 400 doubles and 2000 onlookers were present. The 4th annual meeting in Warsaw Park in Indiana in September 1935 found more than 900 sets of twins parading before 5000 spectators. That year, many states of the union were represented.On August 1937, Fort Wayne's Trier Park in Indiana was host to 1,900 sets of twins for the 5th annual convention with 10,000 spectators. But the largest attendance, still unequalled to our knowledge, occurred the following year on August 29, 1937 when the National Twins became known as the International Twins Association, Inc. An old newsclipping states that 20,000 twins were in attendance. At this time co-officers were elected (a set pf twins holding an office to emphasiee the twin idea), and By-laws written to govern the association. The International Twins Association, Inc. (I.T.A.) conventions were held in Fort Wayne until 1939. Then the conventions moved from city to city throughout the United States, giving more twins an opportunity to learn about this unique fraternal organization.

1. French Retrospect

1890 ◽  
Vol 36 (153) ◽  
pp. 267-276
Author(s):  
Havelock Ellis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Faculty ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Fair Proportion ◽  
General Secretary ◽  
Second International

The second International Congress of Criminal Anthropology was held last August at Paris, in the large amphitheatre of the Faculty of Medicine. A very considerable audience, including a fair proportion of ladies, assembled here during the week over which the Congress extended. Many distinguished representatives of science, law, medicine, and the administrative world came from very various countries, and official representatives were present from France, Italy, Russia, Holland, Belgium, the United States, Denmark, Sweden, Roumania, Servia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, and Hawaii. Great Britain, it will be observed, was only conspicuous by its absence. Among those who took part in the proceedings of the Congress may be mentioned M. Thévenet, the Minister of Justice, Dr. Brouardel, the Dean of the Medical Faculty of Paris, and President of the Congress, MM. Théophile Roussel, Lombroso, Ferri, Garofalo, Moleschott, Lacassagne, Demange, Van Hamel, Semal, Ladame, Benedikt, Tarde, Wilson, Tenchini, Motet, Manouvrier, Alphonse Bertillon, Bournet, Féré, Coutagne, Letourneau, Mme. Clémence Royer, Drill, Clark Bell, Magnan, Topinard, Delasiauve, and the General Secretary of the Congress, Dr. Magitot.

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