A Study of Certain Mathematical Abilities in High School Physics

1932 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 313-331
Author(s):  
William Ray Carter
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematical Abilities ◽  
The Past ◽  
High School Physics ◽  
Difference Of Opinion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Objective Basis ◽  
Magazine Articles

The problem of the functioning of the mathematical training of the student in high school physics has received much attention during the past decade. This attention has ranged from magazine articles advocating the demathematizing of high school physics to carefully planned studies to determine the kind and amount of mathematics needed in the course. There has been much difference of opinion as to whether or not too much emphasis has been placed upon the mathematical aspects of the subject. The earlier discussions were much concerned with this phase of the problem, but not much was done to settle the question on an objective basis. Hughes has summarized the arguments on both sides of this question and has presented certain conclusions regarding this controversy.1

scholarly journals Educar para una ciudadanía crítica: una investigación a partir de los usos y finalidades de la historia escolar

Panta Rei ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-237
Author(s):  
Néstor Banderas Navarro
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Teaching Position ◽  
Hybrid Teaching ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Didactic Strategies

En esta investigación se examinan los usos y finalidades de la historia en un instituto en relación a la formación ciudadana. El saber histórico tiene gran potencial crítico y permite adquirir criterios para actuar democráticamente. Se emplearán entrevistas semiestructuradas a dos docentes y cuestionarios y narrativas a su alumnado de 1.º y 4.º ESO. La investigación constata un posicionamiento docente híbrido, encontrando rasgos de modelos tradicionales en la enseñanza (el escaso tratamiento de temas controversiales), y críticos, como la creencia en el potencial transformador de la materia. En el alumnado se observarán posiciones objetivistas acerca del pasado, que conviven con ejemplos de mayor capacidad de agencia ante cuestiones actuales. La profundización en estrategias didácticas que aborden la educación política desde la historia redundará en la adquisición de habilidades y actitudes para vivir en democracia. This research examines the uses and purposes of history in a high school in relation to citizen training. Historical knowledge has great criticism potential and allows acquiring criteria to act democratically. Semi-structured interviews with two teachers and questionnaires and narratives will be used for students in 1st and 4th ESO. The research shows a hybrid teaching position, finding traits of traditional models in teaching (the scarce treatment of controversial topics), and critics, such as the belief in the transformative potential of the subject. In the students, objectivist positions about the past will be observed, which coexist with examples of greater agency capacity in the face of current issues. The deepening of didactic strategies that address political education from History will result in the acquisition of skills and attitudes to live in democracy.

A Study of Certain Mathematical Abilities in High School Physics

1932 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 451-469
Author(s):  
William Ray Carter
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Mathematical Abilities ◽  
High School Physics

The results from the five tests used in this study are presented in detail in the preceding part with but little comment or interpretation. A brief description of the distribution of first semester marks in physics is also included. It is now necessary to make further interpretations of these results in the light of the purposes of this study as they are stated in Part II.

A Study of Certain Mathematical Abilities in High School Physics

1932 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 388-419
Author(s):  
William Ray Carter
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Mathematical Abilities ◽  
School Year ◽  
High School Physics ◽  
Physics Classes ◽  
First Offers

The students included in this study were members of the physics classes of thirteen high schools of Missouri during the school year of 1930-31. In selecting the schools which were to co-operate in this study, the Missouri State High School Directory for 1929-30 was used to make a list of the first class high schools offering physics during that year. Letters outlining in detail the nature of the proposed study and asking co-operation in the project were sent to the principals of these schools. The thirteen schools included in this study were the ones from which came the first offers of co-operation. In order to check the results from the Carter test, certain data from the physics classes of the Cleveland High School of St. Louis were used. Data from this school, however, were not used in the main body of this study. There were twenty separate physics classes in the thirteen schools included in this study. The locations of the cooperating schools are shown in Table I.

First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies, by Peter Bellwood. Malden (MA): Blackwell, 2005; ISBN 0-631-20565-9 hardback £60; ISBN 0-631-20566-7 paperback £17.99, xix+360 pp., 59 figs., 3 tables

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bellwood ◽  
Clive Gamble ◽  
Steven A. Le Blanc ◽  
Mark Pluciennik ◽  
Martin Richards ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Movements ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Agricultural Origins ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Difference Of Opinion ◽  
Agricultural Societies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Synthesis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a benchmark for theorization and justifies archaeology as a field. But agreement stops there. Few academic books published recently have evoked such highly charged reactions. On the one hand, First Farmers has impressed many critics, reached audiences far afield from traditional archaeological readerships, and garnered major book awards from professional bodies such as the Society for American Archaeology. On the other hand, it has been subjected to a level of concerted criticism rare in the academic world. As the reviews below show, it has clearly hit a nerve; the gloves are off.First Farmers polarizes scholars in complex ways. Much recent work on agricultural origins, particularly in Europe, has had a strongly indigenist and particularistic tone, averse to mass movements of peoples and ‘grand narratives’ in general. But even advocates of grand narrative in general may take exception to Bellwood's ‘language dispersals’ thesis. Similarly, the very attempt to bring together linguistic, genetic and archaeological data in an account of the past is controversial to some, but even those who aspire to this kind of interdisciplinary synthesis rarely agree on how it can be carried out.Neither the book nor its critics here are likely to be the last word on the subject. But whether one agrees with it or not, First Farmers is a welcome addition to the agricultural origins scene, which, at least in Europe, has been evolving over the last two decades towards a sort of eclectic middle-ground consensus in which difference of opinion is accommodated by eschewing bold generalization.

Experimental Programs: High speed computer programming in the junior high school

1963 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 535-537
Author(s):  
Raymond Sweet
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Computer Programming ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Library ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Geometry Class ◽  
Speed Computer

Each time that a mathematics project has been assigned here in the past few years, several students have indicated an interest in computers. Until recently none of the teachers had any training in the computer's use and the school library had no books pertaining to the subject. Last year, within four months after the arrival of a text describing the construction of several homemade computers, boys in an accelerated geometry class turned in three small computers for their term projects.

Lewis Carrol—Mathematician

1933 ◽  
Vol 17 (223) ◽  
pp. 92-100
Author(s):  
D.B. Eperson
Keyword(s):  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Magazine Articles

As this is the last paper of our meeting, you may be expecting me to provide a bright and witty epilogue to conclude the proceedings. Further, since Lewis Carroll is recognised as a humorist, who did not hesitate to include pantomime humour in his mathematical essays, you may be expecting a kind of harlequinade. But, unfortunately, I cannot fulfil these expectations the title is Lewis Carroll—mathematician, and as he took himself very seriously as a mathematician it would be a poor tribute if I treated this aspect of his work in a light-hearted manner. During the past twelve months many tributes have been paid to Lewis Carroll. His literary genius, his imaginative powers, his love of children, his interest in logic, ”his penchant for puns, puzzles, parodies and palaver“, all these have been the subject of newspaper and magazine articles, as well as of the more ambitious essays and books in praise of one who always avoided publicity, and was almost ashamed of being recognised as the author of Alice in Wonderland. But little has been heard of the Rev C. L. Dodgson, mathematical lecturer of Christ Church, Oxford, the author of mathematical pamphlets and books, which he was not ashamed to publish without a pseudonym.

scholarly journals The Decision Making Process of High School Students with High Mathematical Ability in Solving Social Arithmetic Problems

MATHEdunesa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-201
Author(s):  
Mochamad Yusuf ◽  
Rooselyna Ekawati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mathematical Ability ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematical Abilities ◽  
Mathematics Ability ◽  
Ability Tests ◽  
The Subject

The decision making process is the individual steps in choosing an appropriate alternative choice from the various alternatives available to solve the problem. The purpose of this study is to describe the decision making process of high school students with high mathematical abilities in solving social arithmetic problems. The research approach used in this study is qualitative research. While the type of research is a qualitative descriptive study. The process of collecting data uses several instruments consisting of mathematics ability tests, social arithmetic problem solving tests, and interview guidelines. This research was conducted on 11th grade high school students in one of the state high schools in Sidoarjo. The subjects of this study consisted of one student with high mathematical abilities. The data collection method in this study began with the provision of mathematics ability tests for all students followed by selecting one subject with high mathematical ability through several considerations. The next step, the subject is given a problem solving test and interviewed to get the decision making process carried out by the subject. The results showed that students with high mathematical abilities carried out a series of activities in the stages of the decision making process, namely define the decision, understand the context, identify the options, prioritise the options, evaluate the consequences, review the decisions, and take actions.

Some Suggestions as to the Non-technical Preparation of Teachers of Mathematics

1943 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 179-182
Author(s):  
Arnold Dresden
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Quadratic Equation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Technical Preparation ◽  
Geometrical Progression ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Water Tanks

It is at the same time a source of weakness and a source of strength for mathematics as a high school subject that its content is farther removed than most other subjects from the every day experiences of the pupils who are being initiated into its mysteries. The danger arising from this isolation is that the significance, meaning and value of the subject are likely to be seriously underestimated both by the students and by the general public, on whose support the continuance of the subject in the school curriculum ultimately depends. Mathematics is “hard” for some students, largely because it deals with unfamiliar material and because it raises questions, which seem both strange and unimportant to the mind of the boy or girl who has to think of earning a livelihood as well as of passing the course. Why he should learn to solve a quadratic equation or to sum a geometrical progression may seem as puzzling to him as it seems silly to worry about proving that all right angles are equal. Parents are likely to wonder how their children's skill in solving problems about clocks and water tanks will strengthen their character, or how the ability to learn by heart proofs of geometric theorems will stimulate their imagination. That the high school student has not established a connection between mathematics and the rest of his experiences may be natural and no cause for wonder. That the parents, who have “gone through” the schools and possibly a college, have not done so constitutes a serious criticism of our work; it is an indication of the fact that the problem we are here discussing has not found a solution adequate for the needs of the past generation.

IMPELEMENTATION OF SELF-REGULATED LEARNING ON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT OF LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Fatin Rohmah Wahidah ◽  
Farida Kurniawati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Motivation And Learning

The purpose of this study was to determine the application of self-regulated learning interventions to increase learning motivation and learning abilities in junior high school students who come from families with low socioeconomic levels. The intervention was given for five sessions through psychoeducation and assignments. The subject of this study is a male, 15 years old. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. Data analysis using triangulation techniques. The results of the analysis of observations, interviews, and assignment documents show that there are differences before and after the subject was given intervention. In general, self-regulated learning intervention has a positive impact on learning motivation and learning abilities of the subject. Several factors that support and inhibit intervention were explained. Some suggestions are given to develop the further intervention.

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