International Mathematical Education: A course in probability theory for secondary schools

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 528-535
Author(s):  
Lennart Råde
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Probability Theory ◽  
Statistical Theory ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Technical High School ◽  
School Study ◽  
Probability And Statistics

Editor's note.—Professor Lennart RÅde is a member of the Scandinavian Committee for the Modernizing of School Mathematics and is responsible for most of the work in probability and statistics produced by this committee. He is a University Lecturer at the Chalmers Technical High School, Göteborg, Sweden. This paper reflects the type of high school course that is now given in the Swedish Gymnas or senior high school. The Scandidinavian countries—through the works of Cramer, Fisher, and others—have made major and important contributions to probability and statistical theory. It is of value to study the approach given in this paper, with current books in the U.S.A. intended for secondary school study.—Howard F. Fehr.

scholarly journals Atlantic Slavery: Lost in Trans-lation

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott L Stabler ◽  
Mary Owusu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
In Trans

“Who benefited more from the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Ghanaians or Europeans?” Ghana Ministry of Education and Sports:2008, 17). That’s the test question on the official government syllabus/standards for Ghanaian schools. The syllabus also lists the benefits of colonization and that list far outweighs the detriments. The lack of a broader understanding about the devastation brought on by the Transatlantic Slave Trade (TAST) is not exclusive to Ghana, but proves similar in the United States and likely throughout the world. Generally, the TAST appears lost in Trans-lation in secondary schools. The Transatlantic Slave Trade forms the most transnational exchange surrounding Africa and the African Diaspora. The TAST to the Americas relocated millions of people, killed untold more, treated them as property based on their melanin, caused many wars and affects the world today. To broaden our understanding of the pedagogies of the TAST, Ghanaian secondary teachers were interviewed, textbooks and the national standards were reviewed along with Ghana's role at the heart of the TAST with Cape Coast as a central embarking point. We discovered a lack of instruction about the transnational and contemporary impacts of the TAST at the secondary level. Through our study of the TAST’s instruction in Ghana’s secondary schools a need to expand how teachers inform students about the breadth of the TAST was discovered. This article will focus primarily on Ghana’s lack of transnational reach at the secondary school level due to the limits of standardized testing, the Ghana Educational Service’s syllabus, the textbooks utilized, assessments, poverty, teacher awareness and neocolonialism. This study also examines why transnational exchange in teaching the TAST proves essential in the secondary school classroom in Ghana and beyond.Ghana Ministry of Education. (2008). Teaching Syllabus for Social Studies Senior High School. Accra: Ghana Ministry of Education and Sports.[i]Teaching Syllabus for Social Studies, Senior High School, Ghana Ministry of Education and Sports, 2008, 17.

The place of probability and statistics in the mathematics curriculum of the senior high school and junior college

1961 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 316-320
Author(s):  
H. E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Level ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Probability And Statistics

Should probability and statistics be offered at the secondary-school level? If so, how much emphasis should be given?

Gender Non-traditional High School Study: Reasons for Choice and Evaluation of Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-66
Author(s):  
Irena Smetáčková ◽  
Petr Pavlík
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Male Students ◽  
School Program ◽  
School Study ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Opposite Sex

Career choices of most pupils at the end of the primary school conform to gender norms. Only a few of them continue to study in a field traditionally considered appropriate for the opposite sex. The qualitative study presented here maps the reasons for such choices based on a sample of 25 female and 31 male students who study gender-atypical secondary school program for one to three years. The data were collected using a questionnaire with open-ended items and analysed using the qualitative thematic analysis. The results revealed that the reasons for school choices of boys and girls differ to certain extent. Their situation also differs with respect to the support they receive from their close ones and the acceptance by their classmates. The parents of girls disapproved of their choices more often than the parents of boys. Girls were also ridiculed more frequently by their peer groups.

SCHOOL-INDUSTRY LINKS: A VALUE ADDING PROCESS

1995 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 836
Author(s):  
J. A. Mazzone
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
South Australia ◽  
A Value ◽  
Cascade Effect ◽  
The City

The establishment of links between SAGASCO Resources Limited (SAGASCO) and secondary schools in the city and country regions of South Australia has provided benefits to both the petroleum industry and to the students and teachers at the schools. Links between Penola High School in the southeast of South Australia and Hamilton Secondary School in Adelaide began in 1993 and have continued to the present. Feedback from the schools has been positive and significant. The two schools have overwhelmingly endorsed the links and have benefited both in curriculum development and in gaining a glimpse of industry operations that is not found in textbooks. The benefits from the link process has also revealed a cascade effect in which students and teachers have utilised information on the petroleum industry and incorporated it into reports, publications and texts that have been further used by the schools and the community, thus enhancing the original link process. Links with schools require stronger support by the petroleum industry to meet the needs of schools and to provide balance to the often negative profile of our industry in the community both in the immediate and longer term.

The Need for a Reorientation of Secondary School Mathematics from the High School View Point

1935 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
M. L. Hartung
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
View Point ◽  
Professional Schools ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Engineering Mathematics ◽  
Take All

Three years ago a prominent professor of education in a large eastern University published a book entitled, “Secondary Schools in 1960.” The author assumes the role of prophet, and among his predictions for 1960 are the following: “A very few students in eleventh and twelfth grades take a course in Pre-engineering Mathematics. (But in practice most prospective engineers take all their vocational mathematics in professional schools—as do the followers of nearly all other vocations.…) In marked contrast to the earlier time, it is found that commonly not more than twenty percent of pupils take any mathematics in grades seven to twelve.”

Some Thoughts on Tomorrow's Mathematics

1945 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 269-273
Author(s):  
S. L. Berman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Mathematical Study ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
The World ◽  
Secondary School Pupils

How times have changed! A number of years ago, the educator who espoused the cause of increased mathematical study for secondary school pupils would have been tolerated in some quarters, considered eccentric in others, but would have been ignored completely or not too quietly ridiculed in most educational circles. Now, not only are schoolmen deeply interested in the extension of mathematical education, but their concern is not limited to related mathematics or to social mathematics. It has been rediscovered that there is a place in the high school curriculum for the traditional sequential courses in mathematics, a place of importance in the world of tomorrow.

What has Happened to Probability in the High School?

1967 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 824-831
Author(s):  
Frederick Mosteller
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Probability And Statistics

The teaching of probability and statistics both in school and secondary school mathematics has come a very long way since the Commission on Mathematics first produced the Gray Book.1 Many commercial publishers have attractive texts, and SMSG and others have produced sections on probability and statistics for various grade levels.

Perception of Illness among Secondary School Pupils in South Africa: Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and Alcoholism

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 847-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northern Province ◽  
School Students ◽  
Gradual Onset ◽  
Hiv Aids

The study investigated beliefs of 121 high school students in Grade 11 about people who are ill with malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and alcoholism. The sample of Black pupils were chosen at random from two rural secondary schools in one region in the Northern Province of South Africa. Analysis indicated that HIV/AIDS was clearly distinguished from the other three illnesses by being seen as the least easily cured, having the most gradual onset, being the most contagious, showing the least look of illness, and the patients being likely those most blamed for their illness.

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