Teaching Descriptive and Inferential Statistics Using a Classroom Microcomputer

1983 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 318-322
Author(s):  
Betty Collis
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Inferential Statistics

There is no doubt that statistics should be an important part of the secondary mathematics curriculum. A single classroom microcomputer can be valuable for work in both descriptive and inferential statistics. This article presents a framework for integrating a microcomputer into a statistics unit and includes descriptions of some programs suitable for the Apple microcomputer and ideas for lessons.

Functional Mathematics—Grades Seven Through Twelve

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 297-301
Author(s):  
William A. Gager
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
The State ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Secondary Mathematics Teachers ◽  
The University

Is November 1917 the Florida State Department of Education and the college of Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida sponsored a study under my direction to determine ways of improving certain parts of the present secondary mathematics curriculum. Thirty-six secondary mathematics teachers, representing all areas of subject matter, all types of schools, and all sections of the state were selected to make the study. Work on the project was begun at the University of Florida on June 14, 1948.

Difference Equations

1988 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
pp. 540-544
Author(s):  
Alton T. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Difference Equations ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Discrete Mathematics ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Continuous Quantities

Much talk is heard these days about the importance of including topics from discrete mathematics in our secondary mathematics curriculum. They are characterized by their treatment of discrete quantities rather than continuous quantities and limit processes. The mathematics of continuity and limit processes leading into calculus will continue to be a major part of our mathematics curriculum. At the same time topics from discrete mathematics will take on more importance because of the presence of inexpensive computing power that is fundamentally finite and discrete.

Activities: Iterating Linear Functions—An Introduction to Dynamical Systems

1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-136
Author(s):  
Jonathan Choate
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Numerical Methods ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Linear Functions ◽  
Exponential Functions ◽  
Numerical Iteration ◽  
Symbolic Methods ◽  
And Mathematics

The arrival of computers has caused some major changes in both mathematics and mathematics education. One of the biggest shifts has been from an emphasis on symbolic methods to one on numerical methods. One field of mathematics, dynamical systems, requires considerable number crunching and is just coming into its own because we currently have the ability to perform extensive calculations easily. This article introduces students to this new field. The study of sequences created by using numerical iteration provides interesting new ways to approach many of the concepts central to the secondary mathematics curriculum, such as functions in general and linear and exponential functions in particular.

An Analysis on Singapore 2020 Secondary Mathematics Curriculum

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 219-232
Author(s):  
Inyong Choi ◽  
Minho Song ◽  
Hwakyung Kim ◽  
Inwoo Chung
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Mathematics

A Case for Probability

1979 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 37-57
Author(s):  
Graham Jones
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Study ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Upper Secondary Level

During the past twenty years, many educators have supported the inclusion of probability in the mathematics curriculum at all levels. Although the efforts of these educators have had some success at the upper secondary level, they have not resulted in universal acceptance of a systematic study of probability in elementary and lower secondary mathematics.

The Secondary Mathematics Curriculum

1959 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 389-417
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Century Thought

A paradox of the present-day American classroom tends to characterize twentieth-century mathematics, a subject pulsating with the challenge of new ideas, as one that was permanently fashioned in the matrix of pre-seventeenth-century thought. It is quite true that mathematics, “the fastest growing and most rapidly changing of the sciences,” does find peculiar strength in the time-tested validity of much of its traditional subject content.

Experimental Programs: How Modern is Today's Secondary Mathematics Curriculum?

1967 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
John W. Alspaugh ◽  
Floyd G. Delon
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Teacher Preparation Program ◽  
College Mathematics ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Mathematics Educators ◽  
The Status

Revision in the secondary mathematics curriculum is an acknowledged fact among mathematics educators on both the secondary and the college levels. However. only estimates exist as to the extent of this revision in the nation's schools or even within the schools of a given state. No effective adjustment in college mathematics and related courses in the teacher- preparation program can take place until this information is available. A recognition of the need for a survey of the status of the secondary mathematics curriculum led to the study upon which this report is based. While schools in only one state are considered, the information may be indicative of the status of the secondary mathematics curriculum elsewhere.

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