• In addition, this study verified that there exist a positive association between a student's attitude toward mathematics and his attitude towards computers and vice versa, and there exist a positive association between a student's satisfaction with WBI and her attitudes toward mathematics. (umsystem.edu)
  • Computers can be used to enhance a student's knowledge of mathematics, focusing on what can be done above and beyond with pencil and paper alone (Pea, 1986). (citejournal.org)
  • No statistically significant differences were found between students taught with a computer laboratory and those taught without the computer component for attitudes toward statistics, but those taught by computer exhibited more positive attitudes toward the computer and less statistical anxiety at the end of the course. (causeweb.org)
  • And there were no statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) in the male and female teachers' assessments of the requirements of STEM application and their attitudes towards it. (ejmste.com)
  • There were statistically significant differences according to the variable of specialization and for the benefit of science and mathematics teachers compared to Computer ones. (ejmste.com)
  • Students take five classes daily - Persuasive Speaking, Computers, Mathematics, Physics, and College Writing - all taught by University professors. (asee.org)
  • 5 Similarly, it has been shown (for example, see Reference 5 and references therein) that student attitudes towards a Physics course they have completed influence their future engagement with science and engineering disciplines and subsequent career choices. (asee.org)
  • In this paper, we discuss student attitudes and interest in science and engineering arising from their participation in the Physics of Cell Phones class at the University of Detroit Mercy. (asee.org)
  • You seem to have a strange collection of interests: mathematics and physics and philosophy, on the one hand, and fiction, on the other. (edge.org)
  • And more than half the space is devoted to glorious full colour reproductions, almost entirely of art works, with only a little space used for diagrams illustrating aspects of mathematics or physics. (dannyreviews.com)
  • I skipped over almost all the explanations of mathematics, computer science, and physics, and only a little of the history of science was new to me, but it's always nice to get new angles on familiar topics, for example the correspondence between the geometer Coxeter and the artist Escher. (dannyreviews.com)
  • This lecture was jointly held with the British Society for the History of Mathematics. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • I would like to begin by thanking Gresham College, especially Barbara Anderson, and also the British Society for the History of Mathematics for their joint invitation to speak here this evening. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • The larger part of the text describes people, schools and trends in the history of art which were influenced by or connected in some way to mathematics, with a smaller part devoted to the history of mathematics and related sciences. (dannyreviews.com)
  • Attitudes and behaviour that are normal in one context may be taken entirely differently in another. (utwente.nl)
  • This doctoral study investigated the effect of animated agents with verbal audio in WBI on mathematics achievement and attitudes toward mathematics and computers using a pretest-posttest control group design model among eighty-one college students who enrolled in Pre-Calculus courses a at doctoral/research-extensive university. (umsystem.edu)
  • It verified quantitatively that the presence of animated agents with verbal audio in WBI can improve students' mathematics achievement and attitudes toward mathematics, but not their attitudes toward computers. (umsystem.edu)
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) regarding concepts of "surface area and volume of vertical circular cylinder" on seventh grade students' achievement and attitudes toward mathematics. (ufzg.hr)
  • The results indicated that CAI significantly improved students' mathematics achievement compared to the results achieved through traditional instruction. (ufzg.hr)
  • However, it was found that short-term CAI implementation did not make a significant difference on students' attitudes toward mathematics. (ufzg.hr)
  • and mathematics ability on statistics achievement were studied for 289 college students over four semesters. (causeweb.org)
  • A secondary purpose of the study was to determine the effect of the computer laboratory component of an inferential statistics class on students' end of course attitudes. (causeweb.org)
  • Background Attitudes of the students towards mathematics lessons are very important in terms of their success and motivation. (ejmste.com)
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a scale for the assessment of primary school students' attitudes towards mathematics courses in the 2nd and 3rd grades, to analyse its validity-reliability structure and to determine the students' attitudes towards mathematics. (ejmste.com)
  • Towards a definition of attitude: the relationship between the affective and the cognitive in pre-university students. (ejmste.com)
  • Teachers' images of math are typically based on their own limited experiences as young students, and so teacher education programs should incorporate mathematics history into their curriculum as a way of reshaping attitudes, the study suggests. (eimacs.com)
  • Fostering this viewpoint could help teachers help their students understand that mathematics is a natural place for inventive problem-solving where questioning and investigating are highly valued. (eimacs.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to observe students' retention, success and attitudes towards mathematics in a community college quantitative literacy course, taught in a lab-based format. (mathcentre.ac.uk)
  • There was also marginally significant growth in students' attitudes towards the relevance and utility of mathematics. (mathcentre.ac.uk)
  • The program is designed not only to upgrade the basic knowledge of students in each of the fields of Mathematics, Information Technology and Theory of Education, but also to achieve a synergistic effect of their integration in the training of these specialists. (uni-sofia.bg)
  • The learning process, implemented according to the proposed curriculum, gives students in-depth theoretical knowledge, practical skills and research opportunities in the fields of mathematics education, information technology education and educational theory. (uni-sofia.bg)
  • It focuses on teaching our students the skills and attitudes they need to succeed in their chosen career pathways. (portsmouth.gov.uk)
  • All our students use their own Chromebook computers to support their learning in a fully cloud-based learning environment. (portsmouth.gov.uk)
  • Since that time, over 10,000 students in grades 2-5 in 43 primary education schools are using XO computers. (ed.gov)
  • In addition to these tests, students were asked to respond to a questionnaire, which consisted of demographic and ICT-related questions and computer attitude measure for young student instrument. (ed.gov)
  • A concern of our nation's universities and colleges is the number of students entering with what are considered to be sub-standard mathematics skills. (umd.edu)
  • Success in developmental mathematics courses could lead to an increase in college-level retention rates and increase students' learning and achievement in credit-bearing mathematics courses. (umd.edu)
  • The purpose of this study was to examine if teacher initiated interaction with developmental mathematics students studying in a computer-based classroom has an effect on their achievement or self-efficacy in mathematics. (umd.edu)
  • Through the use of a quantitative, experimental design, the researcher attempted to gain insight into the role of a developmental mathematics teacher, the achievement of students enrolled in a computerized class, as well as their feelings of self-efficacy toward mathematics. (umd.edu)
  • Another, more teaching related reason for writing this book is based on the observation that most students at the university are rather well trained in applying mathematical rules for solving purely mathematical problems, while they often have more difficulties in the application of these mathematics in the modelling of real designs. (iospress.nl)
  • Engineering students' actions in a mathematical modelling task: Mediating mathematical understanding in a computer algebra system. (uj.ac.za)
  • Third, the tools allow students to engage in mathematics that would otherwise be out of reach, thereby stretching students' opportunities. (citejournal.org)
  • Students' attitude to e-learning. (upsi.edu.my)
  • Over time, she says, the use of data has changed attitudes about what students can achieve. (edweek.org)
  • Since 2002, teachers here have tested students in English language arts and mathematics five times a year using common, computer-based assessments. (edweek.org)
  • In the computer lab recently, 3rd grade teacher Talia M. Fehrenbach led her students through an analysis of a recent test, asking them which of a dozen state standards they had successfully demonstrated, which they had not, and what they might do to improve the next time. (edweek.org)
  • Designers and developers of WBI can use these findings to better design, develop, and implement a web-based tutorial that promotes positive attitudes toward learning and long-term mathematics achievement in the postsecondary mathematics arena. (umsystem.edu)
  • The "Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT)" and the "Mathematics Attitude Scale (MAS)" were administered to both groups as a pre-test and a post-test. (ufzg.hr)
  • Set high standards for your child in mathematics achievement. (hcpss.org)
  • The repeated measure ANOVA results of this study indicated that there were significant improvements in student achievement, confidence, and attitude toward teacher when pre- and post- scores were compared in both the control and treatment group. (umd.edu)
  • Ajzen & Fishbein (2000) defined attitude as a person's predisposition to respond favourably or unfavourably to an object or event. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, 2001), in the fall of 2000, 24% of entering freshmen in 4-year institutions, and 53% of entering freshmen at 2-year institutions were enrolled in a developmental mathematics course. (umd.edu)
  • According to the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (1997), over $3.5 billion was spent on computers in 1997 alone (Hooper & Hokanson, 2000). (citejournal.org)
  • Even with this increase in computers in the classroom, most instruction utilizes technology for its own sake, without authentic integration into other school subjects, and is primarily focused on drill and practice instruction (Hooper & Hokanson, 2000). (citejournal.org)
  • This tool-based approach has been shown to be an effective means to use technology to enhance student thinking in mathematics (Lederman & Niess, 2000). (citejournal.org)
  • The training in the master's program is based on a combination of disciplines in different scientific fields, concerning the professional competencies related to the highly specialized training expected from the teachers of Mathematics and Information Technology. (uni-sofia.bg)
  • Masters graduating from the Master's Program "Innovation and Multidisciplinarity in Teaching Mathematics, Computer Modeling and Information Technology" have theoretical knowledge, practical skills and professional competencies that allow them to work effectively in any form and degree of education in mathematics and information technology. (uni-sofia.bg)
  • However, other researchers such as Gotkas, Yildirim & Yildirim, 2009 had disputed this assertion arguing that having a positive attitude towards ICT is not sufficient by itself to achieve effective and meaningful integration of ICT into classroom environment. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • The redesign of a quantitative literacy class: student responses to a lab based format, Teaching Mathematics and its Applications 2013 32(4), 206-213 doi: 10.1093/teamat/hrt003. (mathcentre.ac.uk)
  • Its aim is to increase the professional qualification of specialists with a bachelor's degree in the field of teaching mathematics, computer modelling and information technology. (uni-sofia.bg)
  • Teaching mathematics during the COVID-19 lockdown in a context of historical disadvantage. (uj.ac.za)
  • Gödel wanted to prove a mathematical theorem that would have all the precision of mathematics-the only language with any claims to precision-but with the sweep of philosophy. (edge.org)
  • He wanted a mathematical theorem that would speak to the issues of meta-mathematics. (edge.org)
  • A description of the affordances and constraints of the five types of software and how each facilitates different aspects of student learning clarifies the ways in which diverse off-the-shelf offerings can be used to address the goals of mathematics instruction, from building basic skills to exploring mathematical applications in the real world. (citejournal.org)
  • Batstone, K. J. , 2020 Sept 8 , Mathematics Centre for Mathematical Sciences Lund University Lund . (lu.se)
  • This conference highlights the state of the art and, in particular, recent advances in using mathematical and logical tools, but also empirical experimentation and computer simulations, for studying issues in social epistemology, including the epistemology of social networks. (lu.se)
  • The objective of the study is to investigate, analyze, and understand pre-service teachers' attitudes, beliefs, and levels of technological proficiency related to the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the teaching of mathematics. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • To investigate pre-service teachers' attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions regarding the integration of ICT tools and resources into mathematics instruction. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • Preservice teachers' beliefs and intentions about integrating mathematics teaching and learning ICTs in their classrooms. (uj.ac.za)
  • This study evaluates a brief e-learning resource designed to improve sexual wellbeing support and examine its effects on healthcare professionals' sexual attitudes and beliefs. (strath.ac.uk)
  • Healthcare professionals ( = 44) completed an online questionnaire at baseline which included a modified 12-item sexual attitudes and beliefs survey (SABS). (strath.ac.uk)
  • Data were analysed using one-way, repeat measures ANOVAs to assess change in attitudes and beliefs over time. (strath.ac.uk)
  • In computer simulations in particular we would get lost in an abundance of results if we did not maintain a critical view for the source of the effects. (nobelprize.org)
  • Four attitude and heading reference systems (AHRS) are constructed using micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) sensors, and installed on the front body, rear body, rear axis and boom of an articulated wheel loader to detect its attitude. (essex.ac.uk)
  • Off-line calculated IMU-GPS and Camera-IMU-GPS estimates were compared to the estimates of the onboard AHRS (attitude heading reference system) algorithm of the test aircraft. (sztaki.hu)
  • The study sample consisted of (159) male and female teachers chosen by the random stratified sample method from the study community represented by all science, mathematics and computer teachers in Ajloun Governorate in the academic year 2019/2020. (ejmste.com)
  • Far from being only a formalist, Hilbert used formalism as a tool to provide a foundation for the modern version of Plato's view of mathematics as the cognition of perfect, timeless abstract objects. (dannyreviews.com)
  • Cuantificar la asociación entre la prevalencia de control de la hipertensión arterial a nivel poblacional y la mortalidad por cardiopatía isquémica y accidente cerebrovascular en 36 países y territorios de la Región de las Américas entre 1990 y el 2019. (bvsalud.org)
  • Este estudio ecológico emplea la prevalencia de la hipertensión, la concientización, el tratamiento y el control de la hipertensión arterial en la población producidos por la Colaboración sobre Factores de Riesgo de las Enfermedades No Transmisibles (NCD-RisC, por su sigla en inglés) y estimaciones de mortalidad por cardiopatía isquémica y accidente cerebrovascular del estudio sobre la carga mundial de enfermedad del 2019. (bvsalud.org)
  • Entre 1990 y el 2019, las tasas de mortalidad estandarizadas por edad a causa de cardiopatía isquémica y accidente cerebrovascular disminuyeron en 2,2% (intervalos de confianza de 95%: -2,4 a -2,1) y 1,8% (-1,9 a -1,6) anual, respectivamente. (bvsalud.org)
  • Del 1990 al 2019, la prevalencia de hipertensión arterial controlada definida como presión arterial sistólica/diastólica ≤140/90 mmHg aumentó anualmente en 3,2% (3,1 a 3,2). (bvsalud.org)
  • In line with previous studies, attitude scale scores were correlated with course grade. (causeweb.org)
  • Awareness of behaviours in relationships as abusive as measured by the Understanding Violence against Women scale from The National Community Attitudes Survey, (Webster et al, 2014) [baseline, immediately post-use of website. (who.int)
  • For example, Huang & Law (2005) contended that irrespective of the quality and sophistication of technology infrastructure in any educational institution, the extent to which it is adopted greatly depends on teachers having positive attitudes towards it. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • Similarly, a study by Kersaint, Horton, Stohl, & Garofalo (2003) found that pre-service teachers who showed positive attitudes towards ICT felt more comfortable with using ICT, and more inclined to integrate it into their teaching. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • They were of the view that pre-service teachers go through the process of ICT integration through a set of well-defined stages, which requires first, the users developing positive attitudes rather than acquisition of skills of the technology itself. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • Remember that the most important thing is to demonstrate a positive attitude and explain why you want to be a part of the organisation. (lu.se)
  • Most partic- ipants had never been invited to participate in health research, but the majority reported a positive attitude towards par- ticipation. (who.int)
  • There are wonderful and accessible resources that provide a willing and curious mind with a deeper understanding of mathematics in the context of its rich history. (eimacs.com)
  • In another study in Singapore's pre-service teacher educational context, Teo (2009) concluded that negative attitudes towards ICT was a deterrent to using by the pre-service teachers in the learning environment. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • According to the study's lead author, Danielle Goodwin of the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science ( IMACS ), 'By and large, the teachers with low history scores in this study were the teachers who exhibited narrow, negative views of mathematics. (eimacs.com)
  • Teachers who have rule-oriented images of mathematics can weaken student learning by representing mathematics in misleading ways,' says Goodwin. (eimacs.com)
  • This research aimed to investigate the requirements of the application of the STEM approach in teaching science and mathematics and the teachers' attitudes towards it. (ejmste.com)
  • To explore how pre-service teachers plan to integrate ICT into their future mathematics teaching practices and assess their pedagogical approaches. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • Therefore, as Ghanaian pre-service teachers will begin their duties as teachers in the near future, their attitudes towards ICT usage for instructional purpose should be determined during their teacher training programmes. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • The implications of the findings from these studies are that, searching for factors that might best facilitate change in pre-service teachers' attitudes at the initial stages of ICT adoption should not be overlooked. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • It is, therefore, not surprising that some researchers such as Huang & Liaw (2005) and Myers & Halpin (2002) postulated that studying teachers' attitudes should not be underestimated since it is a major predictor of their future classroom use of the technology. (iprojectdownload.com)
  • Student-teachers' views on the affordances of incorporating cultural artifacts in mathematics lessons in South Africa. (uj.ac.za)
  • Relating Elements of Mathematics Anxiety with the Gender of Preservice Mathematics Teachers. (uj.ac.za)
  • Mathematics teachers' levels of TPACK and ICT-integration barriers. (uj.ac.za)
  • PEKER, D. Turkish pre-service science and mathematics teachers' computer related self-efficacies, attitudes, and the relationship between these variables. (bvsalud.org)
  • A federal Reading First grant provided the school with palm-held computers for teachers to gauge student progress in literacy. (edweek.org)
  • This study investigates the extent to which open access (OA) publishing models affect French researchers' attitudes. (digital-scholarship.org)
  • The workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in interaction design, human-computer interaction, computer mediated communication, intelligent virtual agents, game design, social psychology, and cultural studies. (upenn.edu)
  • Of the three approaches to the foundations of mathematics - formalism, logicism, and intuitionism - formalism has had by far the most profound and lasting impact on the visual arts, first on Russian Constructivism in the 1910s, then throughout the West in the 1920s, then globally after 1945. (dannyreviews.com)
  • Mathematics deals with the quantitative relations of the real world. (marxist.com)
  • This study will include computer systems and software as well as the human resources necessary to manage the creation, maintenance, and use of the systems. (digital-scholarship.org)
  • Do factors such as sex, major [field of study], class [freshman (first year), sophomore (second year), junior (third year), senior (fourth year)] or mathematics background have a bearing on student performance? (causeweb.org)
  • Findings - The study indicates how practices such as information literacy and learning skills, consultative or partnership meetings, use of portable brochures and guides, research, teaching and learning approaches, seminar and workshop trainings, public relations and attitudes influence the use of electronic information resources. (deepdyve.com)
  • This study covered 14 primary schools, of which 7 received XO computers and other 7 did not receive XOs. (ed.gov)
  • So Boticelli's 1480 Saint Augustine in his Study appears in chapter one, alongside a marginal quote from Wittgenstein, to accompany a discussion of Augustine's attitude to mathematics. (dannyreviews.com)
  • Multi-Sensor Based Online Attitude Estimation and Stability Measurement of Articulated Heavy Vehicles. (essex.ac.uk)
  • This paper presents a novel distributed multi-sensor system for real-time attitude estimation and stability measurement of articulated wheel loaders to improve their safety and stability. (essex.ac.uk)
  • In this paper the possibility to use the camera of the onboard sense and avoid system as an aid in unmanned aircraft attitude estimation is examined. (sztaki.hu)
  • The attitude estimation results of the two algorithms are compared to each other considering hardware-in-the-loop simulated 'flight data' and simulated camera images. (sztaki.hu)
  • were more likely to believe that mathematics is a disjointed collection of facts, rules and skills than respondents with high history scores. (eimacs.com)
  • Instead of conveying as healthy the struggle of intellectual discovery that naturally takes place in mathematics when new ideas are explored, 'struggle' in US K-12 math classrooms has come to mean being 'bad at math. (eimacs.com)
  • More advanced technological tools in mathematics take the form of computer applications, calculators, and languages (e.g. (citejournal.org)
  • This lecture will describe some activities of British mathematicians during the war, at the Royal Aircraft Factory, the firing ground of HMS Excellent and in Cambridge, and consider the overall effect of the conflict on British mathematics. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • To combat this, Bliss enrolled in screen printing and computer programming courses and studied movement and dance at the Utah Repertory Dance Theatre to find inspiration. (wikipedia.org)
  • The metaphor of computers as social actors and the anthropomorphisation of the interface (often embodied by attractive young females) are important triggers of research on gender and interaction. (upenn.edu)
  • She attended Wellesley College, where she received her bachelor's degree in art history and mathematics in 1946. (wikipedia.org)
  • Changes in attitudes towards math and science from the elementary school fifth grade to the last classes of high school and equivalent schools. (ejmste.com)
  • Gender differences in computer adoption have been investigated since the '80s. (upenn.edu)
  • Use computers and calculators, as well as pencil and paper, to solve problems. (hcpss.org)
  • G.H. Hardy tries to demonstrate to a general audience that mathematics is intimately about beauty. (edge.org)
  • I would also avoid including pink-collar jobs/stereotypes such as 'a kindergarden teacher' and 'works in a bookstore and takes yoga classes', particularly in an example that uses a woman in a class that is likely male-dominated, if not in numbers, then in attitude. (computationalcomplexity.org)
  • Computers in Mathematics and Art" touches on computer proofs "by exhaustion" (the four-colour theorem and sphere packing), visualization, knots, networks (graphs), origami, recursive algorithms (including cellular automata), and fractal geometry and its applications. (dannyreviews.com)
  • What is the current status of the digital divide in computer adoption and usage between male and female users? (upenn.edu)
  • Leadership becomes faith-based, while employees who have the temerity to suggest that what seems to be happening is in fact happening are herded into Innovation Departments, where they can be ignored en masse. (edge.org)