Let's Do It: Recycle Your Math With Magazines

1977 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Mary Montgomery Lindquist ◽  
Marcia Dana
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Life Problems

Magazines have great potential for helping teach mathematics. Their use is directly related to some of the concerns in teaching mathematics today. For one thing, magazines are readily available and inexpensive—if you or the children collect used ones. Another “plus” is the fact that the ads, the articles, and the pictures are chock-full of “real-life problems.” There are consumer problems of all sorts. Also. there are many magazines that focus on things that are interesting to children. Different children will enjoy sports, movie. racing, news. or other types of magazines. Thus. magazines can assist in individualizing instruction as you tap the interestf of the children.

Mathematics and Meteorology

1986 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 602-603
Author(s):  
Eric F. Wood
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
School Students ◽  
Weather Forecasts ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
Interesting Discussion ◽  
Local Weather

One of the ironies of teaching mathematics is that real-life problems, although interesting, are often too difficult to consider in a secondary school classroom. Consequently the problems that are used in texts are often somewhat contrived. While working at the local weather office, I came upon several applications of trigonometry that are both interesting and instructive for high school students. The problems require that some background knowledge be presented to the students, but often they will have at least heard about the ideas from the nightly weather forecasts on television. These ideas make an interesting discussion for both teacher and student.

scholarly journals Students Mathematics Interest in Senior High Schools: Empirical Evidence from Ashanti Region of Ghana

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Yarhands Dissou Arthur
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Motivation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Ashanti Region ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Mathematics Educators ◽  
Alpha Reliability

The relevance of students’ academic interest in mathematics is of great concern to stakeholders in education. The present study models students’ interest in mathematics (SIM) using mathematics facility (MF), mathematics connection (MC), teacher motivation (TM) as well as instructor quality and availability (IQA). The study randomly selected 1500 students from 10 senior high schools from the Ashanti region of Ghana; however, 1,263 of the participants fully participated in the study. These participants were made to respond to validated self-administered questionnaires with alpha-reliability of 0.74, 0.69, 0.70, 0.699 and 0.68 for SIM, MC, MF, IQA and TM respectively. Findings from the study showed that MC, MF, IQA and TM explain 71.6% of the variance in students’ interest in mathematics. The study further found that approximately 15% of variability in teachers’ ability to connect mathematics to real life problems is attributable to availability of mathematics facility as well as instructor quality and availability. The study finally found that availability of mathematics facilities for teaching and learning explains 12.4% of instructor quality in teaching mathematics. The study concluded that students’ interest in mathematics is influenced significantly by the teachers’ ability to connect mathematics to real life and the immediate environment, availability of mathematics facility, teacher motivation as well as instructor quality and availability. The study recommended for mathematics educators to take into account the influence of these factors and integrate them in the delivery of mathematics in high schools.

scholarly journals Pelatihan Rich Task Pada Mgmp Matematika SMP Lombok Barat

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ita Chairun Nissa ◽  
I Ketut Sukarma ◽  
Sanapiah Sanapiah ◽  
Ade Kurniawan ◽  
Sabrun Sabrun
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Training Material ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Life Problems

The West Lombok Mathematics’ Teacher Community needs to be improved because of the government's demands on the quality of teaching mathematics in schools. Having good mathematical knowledge and being able to solve real-life problems is an important key for teachers to be able to develop innovative mathematics teaching. But in fact, teacher training that emphasizes aspects of mathematical content is still not widely implemented. This is an important reason for this training. The training is carried out in one day through video screening and rich task modeling. The assessment of this training is measured using a closed questionnaire that asks the teacher's attitude towards statements related to the training material, training methods, the ability of the speakers, and the motivation of the trainees. The training that was carried out succeeded in getting a positive response that most of the teachers gave a very agreeing attitude. The teachers also feel motivated and have good expectations for applying the knowledge and skills gained from training into teaching mathematics in the classroom

scholarly journals The authentic activities and mathematical modelling processes for preparatory school pupils

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3C) ◽  
pp. 707-719
Author(s):  
Metwali Saad Metwali Elsaidi ◽  
Marina V. Egupova
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Modeling Processes ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Authentic Activities

The aim of this study of the effect of authentic activities in teaching mathematics on mathematical modeling processesThe authentic activities were used by conducting the experiment, where work was with 45 pupils 13th years old of preparatory school (It’s the second stage of the educational stages in Egypt, and it’s the next stage after Primary school) in Al Qalyubia (One of the cities in Egypt) in the 2020/2021 academic year and studying this effect. The results showed, that value of the impact size through the value of h2 was calculated 0.79, and this meant the strong effect of the authentic activities on the development of mathematical modeling processes, where authentic activities lead to the development of mathematical modeling processes among the pupils because Authentic Activities provides pupils with the opportunity to study real-life problems, analyze them from various aspects and provide a correct picture of the problem that contributes to the increase of students' awareness of what they are learning.

The Psychologist in the Medical School: An Example of Solving Real-Life Problems

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matisyohu Weisenberg ◽  
Carl Eisdorfer ◽  
C. Richard Fletcher ◽  
Murray Wexler
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Life Problems

scholarly journals AnANN Model Trained on Regional Data in the Prediction of Particular Weather Conditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4757
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Bączkiewicz ◽  
Jarosław Wątróbski ◽  
Wojciech Sałabun ◽  
Joanna Kołodziejczyk
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Maximum Temperature ◽  
Air Masses ◽  
Weather Forecasts ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have proven to be a powerful tool for solving a wide variety of real-life problems. The possibility of using them for forecasting phenomena occurring in nature, especially weather indicators, has been widely discussed. However, the various areas of the world differ in terms of their difficulty and ability in preparing accurate weather forecasts. Poland lies in a zone with a moderate transition climate, which is characterized by seasonality and the inflow of many types of air masses from different directions, which, combined with the compound terrain, causes climate variability and makes it difficult to accurately predict the weather. For this reason, it is necessary to adapt the model to the prediction of weather conditions and verify its effectiveness on real data. The principal aim of this study is to present the use of a regressive model based on a unidirectional multilayer neural network, also called a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), to predict selected weather indicators for the city of Szczecin in Poland. The forecast of the model we implemented was effective in determining the daily parameters at 96% compliance with the actual measurements for the prediction of the minimum and maximum temperature for the next day and 83.27% for the prediction of atmospheric pressure.

scholarly journals Formulating Modes of Cooperative Leaning for Education for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3465
Author(s):  
Jordi Colomer ◽  
Dolors Cañabate ◽  
Brigita Stanikūnienė ◽  
Remigijus Bubnys
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The Face ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
The Impact

In the face of today’s global challenges, the practice and theory of contemporary education inevitably focuses on developing the competences that help individuals to find meaningfulness in their societal and professional life, to understand the impact of local actions on global processes and to enable them to solve real-life problems [...]

scholarly journals Derivative-Free King’s Scheme for Multiple Zeros of Nonlinear Functions

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1242
Author(s):  
Ramandeep Behl ◽  
Sonia Bhalla ◽  
Eulalia Martínez ◽  
Majed Aali Alsulami
Keyword(s):  
Iterative Methods ◽  
Fourth Order ◽  
Order Of Convergence ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Multiple Roots ◽  
Computational Results ◽  
Nonlinear Functions ◽  
First Order ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Derivative Free

There is no doubt that the fourth-order King’s family is one of the important ones among its counterparts. However, it has two major problems: the first one is the calculation of the first-order derivative; secondly, it has a linear order of convergence in the case of multiple roots. In order to improve these complications, we suggested a new King’s family of iterative methods. The main features of our scheme are the optimal convergence order, being free from derivatives, and working for multiple roots (m≥2). In addition, we proposed a main theorem that illustrated the fourth order of convergence. It also satisfied the optimal Kung–Traub conjecture of iterative methods without memory. We compared our scheme with the latest iterative methods of the same order of convergence on several real-life problems. In accordance with the computational results, we concluded that our method showed superior behavior compared to the existing methods.

scholarly journals ACO with Intuitionistic Fuzzy Pheromone Updating Applied on Multiple-Constraint Knapsack Problem

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 1456
Author(s):  
Stefka Fidanova ◽  
Krassimir Todorov Atanassov
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knapsack Problem ◽  
Propositional Logic ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Combinatorial Optimization Problems ◽  
Intuitionistic Fuzzy ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Multiple Constraint

Some of industrial and real life problems are difficult to be solved by traditional methods, because they need exponential number of calculations. As an example, we can mention decision-making problems. They can be defined as optimization problems. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is between the best methods, that solves combinatorial optimization problems. The method mimics behavior of the ants in the nature, when they look for a food. One of the algorithm parameters is called pheromone, and it is updated every iteration according quality of the achieved solutions. The intuitionistic fuzzy (propositional) logic was introduced as an extension of Zadeh’s fuzzy logic. In it, each proposition is estimated by two values: degree of validity and degree of non-validity. In this paper, we propose two variants of intuitionistic fuzzy pheromone updating. We apply our ideas on Multiple-Constraint Knapsack Problem (MKP) and compare achieved results with traditional ACO.

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