Data and measurement in Year 4 of the national curriculum : Mathematics

The activities introduced here were used in association with a research project in four Year 4 classrooms and are suggested as a motivating way to address several criteria for Measurement and Data in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. The activities involve measuring the arm span of one student in a class many times and then of all students once.

Contribution of industry-based student learning performance for the STEM education

We hypothesized that Industry based learning and teaching, especially through company assigned student projects or training programs, is an integral part of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. In this paper we show that industry-based student training and experience increases students’ academic performances independent to the organizational parameters and contexts. The literature on industry-based student training focuses on employability and the industry dimension, and neglects in many ways the academic dimension. We observed that the association factors between academic attributes and contributions of industry-based student training are central and vital to the technological learning experiences. We explore international initiatives and statistics collected of student projects in two categories: Industry based learning performances and on campus performances. The data collected were correlated to five (5) universities in different industrialized countries, e.g., Australia N=545 projects, Norway N=279, Germany N=74, France N=107 and Spain N=802. We analyzed industry-based student training along with company assigned student projects compared with in comparisons to campus performance. The data that suggests a strong correlation between industry-based student training per se and improved performance profiles or increasing motivation shows that industry-based student training increases student academic performance independent of organizational parameters and contexts. The programs we augmented were orthogonal to each other however, the trend of the students’ academic performances are identical. An isolated cohort for the reported countries that opposed our hypothesis warrants further investigation.

Exploring links between pedagogical knowledge practices and student outcomes in STEM education for primary schools

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is an emerging initiative in Australia, particularly in primary schools. This qualitative research aimed to understand Year 4 students' involvement in an integrated STEM education unit that focused on science concepts (e.g., states of matter, testing properties of materials) and mathematics concepts (e.g., 3D shapes and metric measurements) for designing, making and testing a strong and safe medical kit to insulate medicines (ice cubes) at desirable temperatures. Data collection tools included student work samples, photographs, written responses from students and the teacher, and researcher notes. In a post-hoc analysis, a pedagogical knowledge practice framework (i.e., planning, timetabling, preparation, teaching strategies, content knowledge, problem solving, classroom management, questioning, implementation, assessment, and viewpoints) was used to explain links to student outcomes in STEM education. The study showed how pedagogical knowledge practices may be linked to student outcomes (knowledge, understanding, skill development, and values and attitudes) for a STEM education activity.

Re-thinking discourses of teacher professionalism in early childhood education: An Australian perspective

The professionalism of early childhood teachers has been the subject of increasing attention globally for over a decade (Moss, 2006; Osgood, 2012; Urban, 2010. In order to understand ways pre-service early childhood teachers make sense of professionalism, this chapter examines some of the discourses of early childhood teacher professionalism, and focuses on qualifications as one way in which being professional is discursively produced. In particular, the chapter makes visible some of the discursive tensions involved in student intentions to pursue careers in primary school teaching/specialist early childhood teacher in primary school, rather than in the child care sector. In doing so, it makes visible some of the effects of particular discourses of professionalism and the ways they may be taken up by students as they make important career decisions.

Os jogos com regras na educação matemática inclusiva

This present study aimed to examine the use of games with rules in working with math education in regular classes included in Elementary School, in the municipal education schools of Natal/RN, observing the learning process and development of all students, especially those with disabilities. The theoretical references used are based on Vygotsky's works and other authors from the historical-cultural perspective, as well as researchers in the field of Inclusive Education and Mathematics Education. The investigation was based on the qualitative research guidelines, with the application of semi-structured interviews with educational coordinators and teachers from the schools involved as well as classroom observations, looking for, in the speeches of those involved and in their teaching practices, elements to reflect on the Mathematics Inclusive Education, the use of games with rules -starting from its goals, the participation of disabled students, the pedagogical mediations, up to its accessibility - and from the learning of disabled students. The analysis results showed that the concepts underlying the development of inclusive teaching practices still refer to the clinical-medical paradigm, understanding the student with disabilities from their deficiencies; which teachers use, in their majority, the mathematical games with rules in their classes, but which the teaching mediation, during these activities, still needs to be qualified so that they can, effectively, contribute to the learning and development of all students; students with disabilities do not always participate in games with others colleagues; games with rules are rarely accessible; and that the Universal Design principles are not adopted in the selected classrooms for this study. Thus, it is clear that much remains to be done so that Mathematics Education can contribute to the learning and development of all students, and among those actions the teacher continuing education is recommended

O uso de softwares na prática profissional do professor de matemática

Este artigo apresenta uma pesquisa que é resultado de cursos online de formação continuada de professores, concebidos a partir de uma parceria entre a UNESP e uma rede nacional de escolas de Ensino Básico. Os cursos buscavam familiarizar os professores de Matemática com os recursos da tecnologia informática, especificamente dois softwares, o Geometricks e o Winplot, no que diz respeito à utilização destes na sala de aula. Após alguns anos da realização dos mesmos, na pesquisa aqui descrita, objetivamos identificar se e como os softwares foram incorporados à prática profissional, em um cenário em que os professores podem contar com laboratórios, formação continuada e suporte técnico. A partir de entrevistas online, pudemos mapear as diferentes escolhas dos professores: não-uso; uso de forma semelhante (ou não) à vivenciada no curso online, e o uso interdisciplinar, mostrando variadas formas pelas quais os professores retraduziram o curso para sua prática.

Professores de matemática que trabalham com projetos nas escolas: quem são eles?

Pós-graduação em Educação Matemática - IGCE

Formação continuada de professores de matemática para o uso da informática na escola: tensões entre proposta e implementação

Pós-graduação em Educação Matemática - IGCE

Ações de formação continuada de professores que ensinam Matemática nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental da rede municipal de Presidente Prudente (SP) e saberes docentes

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A Vivência da experiência da mudança da prática de ensino de matemática

Pós-graduação em Educação Matemática - IGCE

Formação do professor do ensino básico para a educação para a mídia: avaliação de um protótipo de currículo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Violência escolar: o ponto de vista de professores de matemática

Esta é uma pesquisa qualitativa, na modalidade narrativa, para cujo desenvolvimento utilizo as seguintes indagações com o propósito de nortear a investigação: 1) que aspectos da formação docente e social dos professores de matemática, nos seus modos de ver, contribuem/contribuíram para suas percepções sobre violência escolar; 2) como têm sido/foram suas trajetórias profissionais e qual a relevância da disciplina Matemática, abraçada por eles como professores, na constituição da sua visão de violência em sala de aula. Para isso, contatei professores de matemática que atuam em escolas públicas estaduais, no momento em que frequentavam um curso de formação continuada. Utilizei, para a interação com os sujeitos, uma técnica de entrevista em grupo de foco tipo episódica devidamente filmada e transcrita. Dos relatos dos professores-sujeitos da pesquisa emergiram quatro categorias de análise, quais sejam: (A) Experiências de violência por eles vivenciadas na sua infância; (B) Tipo de violência escolar supostamente cometido por cada um dos professores em termos passíveis (ou não) de percepção por eles próprios; (C) Reações dos professores a situações de violência por eles experienciadas nas escolas em que trabalham; (D) Reflexões que cada um costuma fazer após vivenciarem ou terem conhecimento de situações de violência especialmente ocorridas nas suas aulas de matemática ou em aulas de outrem. As análises feitas por mim de acordo com o referencial teórico permitem corroborar que a formação acadêmica dos professores, voltadas somente para a ministração do conteúdo matemático não os prepara para lidar com questões complexas vivenciadas no cotidiano das escolas como é o caso da violência escolar; que o habitus do professor de matemática contribui para uma postura rígida diante da disciplina que ministra e, consequentemente, em relação a seus alunos; que existe necessidade de trabalhar com um currículo mais aberto, adaptado à realidade da escola e dos alunos, caso contrário o ensino de matemática permanecerá como um dos grandes contributos para a violência simbólica independente de insinuar ou não o reconhecimento de alguns professores como propagador de violência. Esse quadro confirma parte dos termos pelos quais é constituída a visão de violência dos professores de matemática, em suas aulas de matemática.

A resolução de problemas e a modelização matemática no processo de ensino - aprendizagem - avaliação: uma contribuição para a formação continuada do professor de matemática

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

The USAID and the teaching of mathematics in Rio Grande do Norte

In the 1960s occurred great changes in the general education and, specially in the mathematical teaching, throughout Brazil. Besides the Law Diretrizes e Bases for Education (law 4024/1961), such changes also was occurred by opposite educational movements. In one side, those ones that valorized the popular education and culture and, for the other side, the international agreements between universities and government organs, like SUDENE and MEC, with United States Agency for International Development (USAID). These agreements purposed the cultural alignment. In this article we will expose some of these agreements and their interference in two courses for teachers' education. These teachers taught mathematics for the elementary school, in Rio Grande do Norte.

Formação continuada de professores de matemática com enfoque colaborativo: contribuições para o uso reflexivo dos recursos da Web 2.0 na prática pedagógica

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT