Thither Algebra

1930 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-316
Author(s):  
P. Stroup
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
General Solution ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
National Development ◽  
Mathematical Development ◽  
Technical Schools ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Henry Ford ◽  
Set Up

The Recent Article by Mr. Betz is a classic of timeliness and wisdom. It arouses the faintly breathing hope that something may yet be done. Mark Twain's remark about the weather might well be applied to the situation in mathematics. There is still however an observation which is perhaps worth making. Our splendid physical prosperity must have some educational basis which is partially responsible for it. Now surely if there is a weakness in our present national development it is spiritual rather than material, it is in culture rather than in mechanical advances. So we are compelled to ask those who raise the cry that we have not taught mathematics efficiently enough just what they have a right to expect. They have set up certain expectations for various stages of mathematical development in the child and have been disappointed to test and find their expectations are not met. Perhaps they were optimistic rather than wise. The technical schools may claim all the credit but it still leaves nothing to complain about as far as the mechanical side of our celebrated prosperity is concerned. The thing that we need most to be concerned about is whether those that succeeded in mathematics furnished a smaller per cent of bootleggers and divorcees than those who failed. I have no statistics to offer but I have always pursued my work as a teacher of elementary algebra and geometry encouraged by the hope that if my students were led to think straighter in mathematics they would have a greater chance of leading useful happy lives. No one has come right out and said that the faulty teaching of algebra and the rest of the debatable high school subjects were responsible for the increase in crime except perhaps Henry Ford with his announcement of millions for education. His proposals do not sound feasible enough as a general solution to warrant our sitting back and waiting for his specifications for the reforming of our high schools.

The Problem of a Non-College Preparatory Curriculum in Mathematics and Suggestions for Its Solution

1947 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
C. C. Fabing
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
College Student ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Class I ◽  
College Preparatory ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
College Preparatory Curriculum ◽  
The Way

Most mathematics teachers have been aware that the non-college student has been neglected so far as getting his rightful share of mathematics has been concerned. In most instances the awareness was passed passed off with a shrug of the shoulders and the blame for not establishing these courses, passed onto some one else. The need has become so acute that the tail is wagging the dog and it would seem that some action may be taken to aid in solving the problem. If you will check the number of graduates in your high school and the number of these graduates who enter college, you will find that only about 15% of the group go on to college. It must be admitted then, that we have constructed our mathematics curriculum largely for the 15% and the remaining 85% have received little or no consideration in mathematics and most of that was a make shift, hit or miss proposition. In some high schools, it is possible for a pupil to graduate without being required to pursue any class in mathematics. If a search were made, I suspect that many more high schools are permitting this situation than we know. Mathematics teachers as a group are rather complacent and hold the dignity of their profession on a high plane. This is as it should be. Since we are supposed to know the meaning of facts as expressed in figures, then we must admit that 85% of a graduating class is a greater responsibility than 15% of the class. To reach 85% of the class, I hope that we will bestir ourselves from this smug complacency in academic mathematics and lend a helping hand to those who need, but seldom get any mathematics. We must become mathematical missionaries and carry the gospel truth to the majority who need aid in mathematics other than that prescribed for the selected few who go to college. We must show the way or continue to see school subjects with less concrete usefulness and more aggressive leaders reducing our mathematics time in the curriculum.

The Need for Mathematics in Business and Industry

1953 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
A. P. Fugill ◽  
W. H. Hulswit ◽  
C. V. Winder
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Logical Reasoning ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
High School Teaching ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Everyday Living

A. P. Fugill: The main purpose of this session is to correlate more closely the teaching of mathematics in the high school with the use of mathematics in everyday living. It should be recognized at the start that the high schools can and should teach only the fundamentals of mathematics. It is the function of industry to develop special techniques of use and facility in handling mathematics. The usual high school subjects, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, are useful in varying degrees in the practice of engineering, or for that matter in any industrial and commercial activity. It would be wasteful to bring every student up to the degree of proficiency required in a few specialized fields. The effort in high school teaching, therefore, should be to use mathematics as a means of developing logical reasoning and judgment, rather than as an exercise in memory.

scholarly journals Listening Materials for Vocational High School Students in Indonesia: Teachers’ Perception

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Sularti Sularti ◽  
Nur Arifah Drajati ◽  
Slamet Supriyadi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Vocational High Schools ◽  
Set Up

Initially, communication is set up by listening. Students need the ability of listening skill for educational purposes and prepare themselves in social life. This study had the objective to investigate the perceptions of the teachers about the existing listening materials at the vocational high schools in Indonesia. In this study, the researcher engaged seventeen teachers of vocational high schools in Indonesia to be the participants. Data were collected by distributing a questionnaire then followed by an interview toward two participants. The results showed that listening materials met students’ needs, supported by the process of the scientific approach, were appropriate with the objective of the study and students' level of English, related to the syllabus of the 2013 curriculum model included the topic learned. On other hand, listening materials did not improve students’ ability in English, monotonous, made students having less focus, difficult to understand, difficult to build students’ prior knowledge, boring, and uninteresting. Finally, as the teachers’ view, the use of video could be the solution to the problems.

Orosensory Perception, Speech Production, and Deafness

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milo E. Bishop ◽  
Robert L. Ringel ◽  
Arthur S. House
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Functional Disorders ◽  
Form Discrimination ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Oral Form ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The oral form-discrimination abilities of 18 orally educated and oriented deaf high school subjects were determined and compared to those of manually educated and oriented deaf subjects and normal-hearing subjects. The similarities and differences among the responses of the three groups were discussed and then compared to responses elicited from subjects with functional disorders of articulation. In general, the discrimination scores separated the manual deaf from the other two groups, particularly when differences in form shapes were involved in the test. The implications of the results for theories relating orosensory-discrimination abilities are discussed. It is postulated that, while a failure in oroperceptual functioning may lead to disorders of articulation, a failure to use the oral mechanism for speech activities, even in persons with normal orosensory capabilities, may result in poor performance on oroperceptual tasks.

MUHAMMADIYAH SCHOOL MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IN BANGKA BELITUNG

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Sri Sugiyarti ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal Arrosyad
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Education Management ◽  
National Examination ◽  
School Year ◽  
Vocational High Schools ◽  
New Facilities

The charitable endeavors of Muhammadiyah in the Bangka Belitung Region in the field of education from the levels of Elementary Schools, Junior High Schools, and High Schools and Vocational High Schools are spread to all districts/cities. However, the discussion about Muhammadiyah education in Bangka Belitung is very minimal. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. This study took the sample of the oldest and best senior high school as an illustration of Muhammadiyah education management in Bangka Belitung. The results showed that Muhammadiyah Education experienced various obstacles to the threat of closure, however, they were able to rise from adversity. Muhammadiyah Pangkalpinang High School as the oldest school departed from a school that boarded at Muhammadiyah Middle School and later became one of the most popular schools in the era of the 1990s to accommodate students up to 18 classes, but later it fell free and was almost closed due to the lack of students. Several times the change of school principals has not improved, a new hope is obtained when the management of this school is submitted to the STKIP Muhammadiyah Bangka Belitung to become its lab school. Now with new facilities and management, the number of students is increasing, slowly but surely this school is starting to improve itself. Meanwhile, Muhammadiyah Toboali High School, South Bangka Regency, which was established in 1994, almost lost public confidence, due to a large number of students who failed the National Examination for the 2006/2007 school year. The situation changed along with Supiandi's leadership, his persistence in managing the school, and finally, the trust in the community returned. Now the number of students has reached nearly 500 students

Safe Spaces: Gay-Straight Alliances in High School

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Fetner ◽  
Athena Elafros ◽  
Sandra Bortolin ◽  
Coralee Drechsler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
The People

In activists' circles as in sociology, the concept "safe space" has beenapplied to all sorts of programs, organizations, and practices. However,few studies have specified clearly what safe spaces are and how theysupport the people who occupy them. In this paper, we examine one sociallocation typically understood to be a safe space: gay-straight alliancegroups in high schools. Using qualitative interviews with young adults inthe United States and Canada who have participated in gay-straightalliances, we examine the experiences of safe spaces in these groups. Weunpack this complex concept to consider some of the dimensions along whichsafe spaces might vary. Participants identified several types of safespace, and from their observations we derive three inter-related dimensionsof safe space: social context, membership and activity.

Plant Biotechnology Workshop for High School Students

HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 504e-504
Author(s):  
Erika Szendrak ◽  
Paul E. Read ◽  
Jon S. Miller
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Plant Biotechnology ◽  
Plant Science ◽  
High School Biology ◽  
School Students ◽  
Subsequent Transformation ◽  
Set Up

Modern aspects of many subjects (e.g., computer science and some aspects of medical science) are now taught in many high schools, but the plant sciences are often given short shrift. A collaboration was therefore established with a high school biology program in which pilot workshops could be developed to enable advanced students to gain insights into modern plant science techniques. A successful example is the workshop on plant biotechnology presented in this report. This workshop is simple and flexible, taking into account that most high school biology laboratories and classrooms are not set up for sophisticated plant science/biotechnology projects. It is suitable for from 10 to 30 students, depending upon space and facilities available. Students work in pairs or trios, and learn simple disinfestation and transfer techniques for micropropagation and potential subsequent transformation treatments. Students gain insights into: sterile technique and hygiene; plant hormones and their physiological effects; plant cell, tissue and organ culture; the influence of environmental factors on response of cells and tissues cultured in vitro; and an understanding of the phenomenon of organogenesis and resulting plant growth and development. This workshop has been tested on several classes of students and following analysis, several refinements were included in subsequent iterations. Results of the students' experiments have been positive and instructive, with student learning outcomes above expectations. Further details of the workshop techniques and approach will be presented.

scholarly journals Increased symptoms of post-traumatic stress in school students soon after the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanmei Xu ◽  
Hang Zhang ◽  
Lijuan Huang ◽  
Xiaolan Wang ◽  
Xiaowei Tang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Psychological Stress ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
School Students ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Senior High School Students

Abstract Background The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19) caused psychological stress in Chinese adults population. But we are unaware of whether the pandemic causes psychological stress on children. Methods We used the Children’s Impact of Event Scale questionnaire (CRIES-13) to investigate the degree of Post-traumatic Stress (PTSD) symptoms caused by the pandemic in students selected from schools in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Henan, Yunnan, and Chongqing provinces of China. Results A total of 7769 students(3692 male and 4077 female), aged 8–18 years, were enrolled in the study, comprising 1214 in primary schools, 2799 in junior high schools and 3756 in senior high schools. A total of 1639 students (21.1%) had severe psychological stress reactions. A large proportion of senior high school students (23.3%) experienced severe psychological stress, and they had the highest median total CRIES-13 score. Female students were more likely to experience severe psychological stress and had higher median CRIES-13 total scores than males. Conclusion COVID-19 has placed psychological stresses on primary and secondary school students in China. These stresses are more likely to reach severe levels among female students and senior high school students.

Survey of school nurses’ experiences of providing counselling on sexual orientation to high school students in Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryohei Terao ◽  
Noriyo Kaneko
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Correlated Factors

AbstractObjectiveTo ascertain the prevalence and correlated factors of providing consultation on sexual orientation and the characteristics of school nurses in high schools in Japan.MethodsParticipants were school nurses working in high schools in Aichi prefecture. Items investigated included background, experiences in providing counselling on sexual orientation, the availability of materials and resources for students, and learning experiences concerning how to handle sexual orientation concerns. We divided the respondents into two groups: one group who have provided counselling on sexual orientation before and one group with no such experience. Chi square tests were utilized to compare the responses between groups.ResultsAmong the respondents, 38.9% (n = 140) had previous experience of providing counselling to students on sexual orientation. The group with experience of providing counselling is more likely to have 10–29 years of experience, to work at a senior high school, to be informed on notifications from the Ministry of Education, to have experience of learning how to provide counselling on sexual orientation, and to be aware of effective resources.ConclusionIn Japan, it is expected that the support needs related to LGBTI will become more obvious in the future and efforts to create an environment in which it is easy for young people to consult with school nurses or other support figures are necessary.

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