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Direct linkKynigos, Chronis; Diamantidis, Dimitris – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
We discuss classroom activity comprised of small groups of students collaboratively tinkering with programs of dynamically manipulable figural models, posing problems regarding their mathematical properties and behaviors. We analyzed data from students' discourse taken from two classroom interventions employing a framework of creative mathematical…
Descriptors: Creativity, Engineering, Mathematical Models, Programming
Download full textRafiepour, Abolfazl; Abdolahpour, Kazem – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
The main purpose of the current study is modifying students' daily drinking water and managing waste water through modelling activities as context and modelling cycle as tool. In this study, 12 students (13-14 years old) from the lower secondary school were participated. These students were participated in two sessions (60 minutes) each week for…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mathematical Models, Water Quality, Learning Activities
Hughes, Andrew J.; Merrill, Chris – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2020
As the authors are proponents for engineering education that is done well, they have provided an explanation of truss design using the Method of Joints that combines the application of practical hands-on learning with sound mathematical and scientific theory. The Method of Joints will allow students to design trusses to meet specified criteria…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Structural Elements (Construction), Experiential Learning, Mathematical Models
Abernethy, Gavin M.; McCartney, Mark – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
Two simple discrete-time models of mutation-induced cannibalism are introduced and investigated, one linear and one nonlinear. Both form the basis for possible classroom activities and independent investigative study. A range of classroom exercises are provided, along with suggestions for further investigations.
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Class Activities, Investigations, Mathematics Activities
Igoe, D. P.; Parisi, A. V.; Wagner, S. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
Smartphones used as tools provide opportunities for the teaching of the concepts of accuracy and precision and the mathematical concept of arctan. The accuracy and precision of a trigonometric experiment using entirely mechanical tools is compared to one using electronic tools, such as a smartphone clinometer application and a laser pointer. This…
Descriptors: Drafting, Accuracy, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Downs, Nathan; Parisi, Alfio V.; Galligan, Linda; Turner, Joanna; Amar, Abdurazaq; King, Rachel; Ultra, Filipina; Butler, Harry – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
A short series of practical classroom mathematics activities employing the use of a large and publicly accessible scientific data set are presented for use by students in years 9 and 10. The activities introduce and build understanding of integral calculus and trigonometric functions through the presentation of practical problem solving that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Calculus, Trigonometry, Problem Solving
Imm, Kara L.; Lorber, Meredith D. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2013
This article describes "modeling" as the act of creating an "idealized version of a real-life situation" that has been "translated into mathematical terms." By exploring an open-ended investigation involving proportional reasoning, sixth grade students were able to walk through both problem solving and modelling. The…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Middle School Students
Morrell, Christopher H.; Auer, Richard E. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2007
In the early 1990s, the National Science Foundation funded many research projects for improving statistical education. Many of these stressed the need for classroom activities that illustrate important issues of designing experiments, generating quality data, fitting models, and performing statistical tests. Our paper describes such an activity on…
Descriptors: Statistics, Learning Activities, Class Activities, Homework
Farmaki, Vassiliki; Paschos, Theodorus – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2007
The integration of history into educational practice can lead to the development of activities through the use of genetic "moments" in the history of mathematics. In the present paper, we utilize Oresme's genetic ideas--developed during the fourteenth century, including ideas on the velocity-time graphical representation as well as geometric…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematical Models, Learning Activities, Geometric Concepts
Peer reviewedGalbraith, Peter – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1987
Attempts to raise some of the issues involved in incorporating mathematical modelling with classroom teaching, as well as providing some background for those unfamiliar with the area. (PK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Curriculum
Peer reviewedKennedy, Jane B. – Mathematics Teacher, 1993
Presents an activity to investigate the dimensions of the maximum rectangular area given a fixed perimeter using mathematical modeling and manipulative materials. Students collect and compare data, find patterns, graph data, write functions, and discuss the meaning of the related mathematical model. Provides three reproducible worksheets for the…
Descriptors: Area, Class Activities, Geometric Concepts, High Schools
Peer reviewedHilbert, Stephen; And Others – Primus, 1993
Discusses a pedagogical approach to calculus based on the question: What kinds of problems should students be able to solve? Includes a discussion of types of problems and curriculum threads for such a course. Describes a projects-based calculus with examples of projects and classroom activities. (Author/MDH)
Descriptors: Calculus, Class Activities, College Mathematics, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHoffer, Alan R. – Mathematics Teacher, 1993
Discusses the potential that school mathematics has for being a source of exploration and discovery for students and teachers. Provides a process-oriented definition of understanding mathematics. Presents activities in which students construct computer and actual models of polyhedra and make conjectures regarding a medical research application of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
