A comprehensive overview of elementary, middle, and high-school mathematics. Intended as a supplement to any math program, this book provides additional math explanation from basic to advanced levels.
Covers all topics required in the pure mathematics section of single subject A-level mathematics syllabuses
Covers all topics required in the pure mathematics section of single subject A-level mathematics syllabuses
Creative Teaching is not only for the arts: this unique and stimulating book shows how mathematics and mathematics teaching can be creative, exciting and enjoyable. Offering teachers a dynamic and different perspective on mathematics, it enables them to see and teach in creative ways that will develop their pupil’s mathematical thinking potential. The book: supports the government’s Primary Strategy "Excellence and Enjoyment" covers both primary and early years range includes issues for reflection, discussion points and case studies addresses new teacher training modules on creativity and maths Aimed at primary and early years trainee teachers, NQTs and experienced teachers, this is a timely publication for teachers and schools seeking to broaden their maths curriculum, making it more creative and appealing to young minds.
'Creativity' has, though, been granted official recognition as one of the
overarching aims of the curriculum in English schools so this appears to leave a
dichotomy when thinking of mathematics. Children are seen to be creative when
they are ...
Information Linkage between Applied Mathematics and Industry II presents the proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop on the Information Linkage between Applied Mathematics and Industry, held in Monterey, California on February 22–24, 1979. This book focuses on the linear systems of equations in practical applications. Comprised of two parts encompassing 29 chapters, this volume starts with an analysis of the undetermined systems of linear algebraic equations that are frequently encountered in solving physical problems. This book then discusses the guiding principles of the methods used to stabilize the problem against ill-conditioning and rank deficiency. This text explains the methods that are developed to solve the typical radiation spectrum unfolding problems. Other chapters describe the mathematical technique that is the basis of unfolding code called FERD. Finally, the reader is introduced to integral and differential equations by using a point-by-point approach. Mathematicians, engineers, researchers, and students will find this book extremely useful.
AN ANALYSIS PROGRAM FOR BEAM—SLAB ON ELASTIC FOUNDATION*
Chung-Yen Chiu Structural Department Brown and Caldwell Consulting
Engineers Walnut Creek, California This program has been developed over
several years, ...
Information Linkage Between Applied Mathematics and Industry is a collection of papers dealing with mathematics in engineering context and applications. One paper describes Chernoff faces as a technique of representing multidimensional data and compares the technique with Andrews' sine curves and Anderson's metroglyphys. Another paper investigates practical problems that can arise during implementation of the methods of parameter optimization, using as an example the trajectory of the space shuttle from liftoff to insertion into orbit. One paper analyzes Soviet foreign policy using a graphical representation of k-dimensional data as a statistical tool, written specifically for analysts in foreign policy and international relations. During the period 1964-1975, Soviet foreign policy is active in 25 Sub-Saharan African countries. Another paper discusses ballistics modeling in real time and recommends that investigators be familiar with the computer language to be used, the type of system to be applied, the type of weapon to be modeled, the accuracy required, and other existing ballistic programs. Other papers discuss probabilistic dynamic programming for fault isolation and applied mathematics, as well as engineering in the transport of Antarctic ice resources. The collection can prove valuable to mathematicians, engineers, or designers of industrial processes, computers, aviation, and space technology.
The total number of variables for the cluster analysis program is seventeen -
fourteen Soviet foreign policy acts and three internal characteristics. IV.
REPRESENTATION OF MULTIVARIATE DATA WITH COMPUTER DRAWN
FACES The ...
The purpose of this research is to document the correlations between reading skills and the mathematics performance, in particular on word problem solving. This research was carried out at a private school in El Paso, Texas. The sample population consists of fifty-eight students currently enrolled from six through eleventh grades. This study considers the Stanford Achievement Test scores imparted in March 2006. The Stanford Achievement Test is a multiple-choice assessment that facilitates educators to find out what students know and are able to do at the end of a school year. Six out of the fifty-eight students' problem solving sessions were recorded when solving four word problems chosen from the textbook. Results show that reading skills are correlated to mathematics but these correlations are not strong as one may think. Also, results from the student problem-solving sessions reveal that students may read and understand word problems having a high reading score yet they may have problems decoding and setting them up. This indicates that there may be another set of skills for student success in mathematics problem solving than the reading skills.
into four independent scores such as Synonyms, Multiple Meaning of Words,
Context Clues, and Thinking Skills. Every story or poem in the Reading
Comprehension section is followed by a set of questions. A sample question
referring to a ...
and principles of education or introductory education, elementary school
curriculum or general methods of teaching in the elementary school, principles
and methods of teaching reading, methods and materials in science in the
elementary ...
... and effectiveness of the reciprocal teaching model to the teaching of strategies
for comprehending multiple-step word ... within the context of the students'
developing comprehension and their ability to apply comprehension strategies.
