Call for Manuscripts: Write for a department: iSTEM

10.5951/teacchilmath.19.9.0563 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 19 (9) ◽

pp. 563

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Mathematics Classroom ◽

Student Interest ◽

Stem Fields ◽

Interdisciplinary Instruction ◽

Student Work ◽

Science Technology ◽

Share ideas and activities that you use in your K—grade 6 classroom to stimulate student interest in STEM fields. Submit articles that offer exemplary classroom-tested ideas, rigorous integrated content, interdisciplinary instruction, case studies, or insight into integrating math into STEM curriculum. Manuscripts that include photographs and samples of student work or dialogue are especially encouraged.

Call for manuscripts: Write for a department: iSTEM

10.5951/teacchilmath.20.1.0042 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 42

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Student Interest ◽

Stem Fields ◽

Interdisciplinary Instruction ◽

Share ideas and activities that you use in your K-grade 6 classroom to stimulate student interest in STEM fields. Submit articles that offer exemplary classroom-tested ideas, rigorous integrated content, interdisciplinary instruction, case studies, or insight into integrating math into STEM curriculum.

Call for Manuscripts: Write for a Department: iSTEM

10.5951/teacchilmath.20.4.0245 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 245

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Student Interest ◽

Stem Fields ◽

Interdisciplinary Instruction ◽

Share ideas and activities that you use in your K—grade 6 classroom to stimulate student interest in STEM fields. Submit articles that offer exemplary classroom-tested ideas, rigorous integrated content, interdisciplinary instruction, case studies, or insight into integrating math into STEM curriculum.

A fraction activity to understand sorting algorithms

10.5951/teacchilmath.23.9.0560 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (9) ◽

pp. 560-563

Author(s):

Barbara King ◽

Carmen Petrick Smith

Keyword(s):

Computer Science ◽

Student Interest ◽

Science Students ◽

Stem Fields ◽

Link Type ◽

Integrated Stem ◽

Sorting Algorithms ◽

Science Technology ◽

And Mathematics ◽

Mathematics Department

In an activity integrating mathematics and computer science, students order fractions from least to greatest, reflect on the process they used, and make connections to sorting algorithms. Contributors to the iSTEM (Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) department share ideas and activities that stimulate student interest in the integrated STEM fields in K–grade 6 classrooms. Send submissions of no more than 1500 words to this department by accessing http://tcm.msubmit.net. See detailed submission guidelines for all departments at http://www.nctm.org/WriteForTCM.

Let's get movin'

10.5951/teacchilmath.22.5.0311 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 22 (5) ◽

pp. 311-314 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Terri L. Kurz ◽

Alejandra Serrano

Keyword(s):

Preservice Teachers ◽

Elementary School ◽

Student Interest ◽

Stem Fields ◽

Elementary School Student ◽

Integrated Stem ◽

Science Technology

A Calculator-Based Ranger™ (CBR) can be used to support the understanding of position or time graphs. Preservice teachers used CBRs to help make sense of graphs through movement. An experience with an elementary school student is also described. iSTEM (Integrating Science, Technology, and Engineering in Mathematics) authors share ideas and activities that stimulate student interest in integrated STEM fields in K–grade 6 classrooms.

Designing a Children's Recreation Room

10.5951/teacchilmath.22.2.0110 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 110-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mi Yeon Lee

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Student Interest ◽

Stem Fields ◽

Science Technology ◽

Real World Problem ◽

And Mathematics

Through this project-based unit, students engage in STEM fields by doing research and finding solutions to a real-world problem as an interior designer who is consulted to plan a children's recreation room. iSTEM (Integrating Science Technology Engineering in Mathematics) authors share ideas and activities that stimulate student interest in the integrated fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in K–grade 6 classrooms.

Analysis of Demographics and Factors Influencing Student Choice of Major at Five Universities

HortScience ◽

10.21273/hortsci.33.3.510b ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 510b-510

Author(s):

Tammy Kohlleppel ◽

Jennifer C. Bradley ◽

Jayne Zajicek

Keyword(s):

Student Satisfaction ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

The United States ◽

Student Choice ◽

Student Interest ◽

Post Secondary ◽

Choice Of Major ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

University History ◽

In recent years horticulture programs at universities across the United States have experienced a decline in student numbers. Researchers at the Univ. of Florida and Texas A&M Univ. have developed a survey to gain insight into the influences on undergraduate students who major in horticulture. Five universities participated in the survey of undergraduate horticulture programs, these include the Univ. of Florida, Texas A&M Univ., Oklahoma State Univ., Univ. of Tennessee, and Kansas State Univ. Approximately 600 surveys were sent to the schools during the 1997 fall semester. The questionnaires were completed by horticulture majors and nonmajors taking classes in the horticulture departments. The survey consisted of two main sections. The first section examined student demographic information, high school history, university history and horticulture background and was completed by all students. Only horticulture majors completed the second section, which examined factors influencing choice of horticulture as a major. Results examine fundamental predictors in promoting student interest in horticulture, demographic variables that may influence student choice of major, and student satisfaction and attitude toward current collegiate horticulture programs. Findings from this study will provide insight into the status of post-secondary horticulture education and assist in identifying methods to increase student enrollment in horticulture programs across the country.

Gender Differences in Academic Efficacy across STEM Fields

Sociological Perspectives ◽

10.1177/07311214211028617 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 073112142110286

Author(s):

Jennifer Ashlock ◽

Miodrag Stojnic ◽

Zeynep Tufekci

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Gender Gap ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Stem Fields ◽

Data Set ◽

Science Technology ◽

Middle Schoolers ◽

Self Assessments ◽

Math Grades ◽

And Mathematics

Cultural processes can reduce self-selection into math and science fields, but it remains unclear how confidence in computer science develops, where women are currently the least represented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Few studies evaluate both computer skills and self-assessments of skill. In this paper, we evaluate gender differences in efficacy across three STEM fields using a data set of middle schoolers, a particularly consequential period for academic pathways. Even though girls and boys do not significantly differ in terms of math grades and have similar levels of computer skill, the gender gap in computer efficacy is twice as large as the gap for math. We offer support for disaggregation of STEM fields, so the unique meaning making around computing can be addressed.

A New Vision for Professional Development

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School ◽

10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.18.9.0560 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 560-565

Author(s):

Peter M. Eley ◽

Kelly J. Charles ◽

Latonya L. Leeks

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Classroom Observation ◽

Student Interest ◽

Stem Fields ◽

New Vision ◽

Meaningful Data

Classroom observation presents evidence that using meaningful data and exciting presentations can help strengthen student interest in STEM fields.

Articulating Bodies

10.3828/liverpool/9781789620757.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kylee-Anne Hingston

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

English Translation ◽

Narrative Structure ◽

The Body ◽

Narrative Form ◽

Victorian Fiction ◽

Science Technology ◽

The Social ◽

Linear Movement ◽

Body Positioning

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and the body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” (1893), covering genres that typically relied upon disabled or diseased characters. By tracing the patterns of focalization and narrative structure across six decades of the nineteenth century and across six genres, Articulating Bodies shows the mutability of the Victorians’ understanding of the human body’s centrality to identity—an understanding made mutable by changes in science, technology, religion, and class. It also demonstrates how that understanding changed along with developing narrative styles: as disability became increasingly medicalized and the soul increasingly psychologized, the mode of looking at deviant bodies shifted from gaping at spectacle to scrutinizing specimen, and the shape of narratives evolved from lengthy multiple-plot novels to slim case studies. Moreover, the book illustrates that, despite this overall linear movement from spectacle to specimen in literature and culture, individual texts consistently reveal ambivalence about categorizing the body, positioning some bodies as abnormally deviant while also denying the reality or stability of normalcy. Bodies in Victorian fiction never remain stable entities, in spite of narrative drives and the social, medical, or scientific discourses that attempted to control and understand them.