Curriculum and beyond: Mathematics support for first year life science students

The move into higher education is a real challenge for students from all educational backgrounds, with the adaptation to a new curriculum and style of learning and teaching posing a daunting task. A series of exercises were planned to boost the impact of the mathematics support for level four students and was focussed around a core module for all students. The intention was to develop greater confidence in tackling mathematical problems in all levels of ability and to provide more structured transition period in the first semester of level 4. Over a two-year period the teaching team for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology provided a series of structured formative tutorials and “interactive” online problems. Video solutions to all formative problems were made available, in order that students were able to engage with the problems at any time and were not disadvantaged if they could not attend. The formative problems were specifically set to dovetail into a practical report in which the mathematical skills developed were specifically assessed. Students overwhelmingly agreed that the structured formative activities had broadened their understanding of the subject and that more such activities would help. Furthermore, it is interesting to note that the package of changes undertaken resulted in a significant increase in the overall module mark over the two years of development.

Mathematics across the curriculum : problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy in primary schools.

Está escrito para facilitar la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en los primeros años de la escuela y en la etapa de primaria. Las matemáticas son una asignatura troncal y su uso y aplicación en actividades de resolución de problemas es fundamental para que los niños utilicen sus conocimientos y habilidades en una amplia variedad de situaciones. Muestra, además, cómo enseñar conceptos matemáticos a través de otras materias: historia, geografía, artes, ciencia y tecnología, salud y bienestar,y desarrollo físico. También, se tratan temas de planificación y evaluación, organización y práctica en la clase y el empleo de otros recursos.

STP National curriculum mathematics: 9A.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (KS3) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: trabajando con números, probabilidad, porcentajes, ratio y proporción, productos algebraicos, desigualdades, factores algebraicos, organizando y resumiendo datos, fórmulas, sistema de ecuaciones, ecuaciones de segundo grado, gráficos, áreas y volúmenes, transformaciones, figuras similares, trigonometría: tangente de un ángulo, el seno y el coseno de un ángulo, geometría.

National Curriculum Mathematics 7A.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (KS3) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: suma y resta de números enteros, multiplicación y división con números enteros, recolección y visualización de datos, números primos, el significado de las fracciones, suma y resta de fracciones y decimales, más sobre decimales, unidades métricas (unidades de longitud, unidades de dinero), introducción a la geometría, simetría, triángulos y cuadriláteros, probabilidad, líneas paralelas, coordenadas positivas y negativas, fórmulas, gráficos, resumiendo y comparando datos, ecuaciones, agrupando datos.

STP National Curriculum Mathematics 8A.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (KS3) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: trabajando con números, probabilidad, multiplicación y división de fracciones, fracciones y porcentajes, ratio, polígonos, áreas de triángulos, gráficos, circunferencia y área de un círculo, fórmulas, reflexiones, traducciones y rotaciones (rotación de un objeto sobre un punto), ecuaciones, gráficos de línea recta, gráficos curvados, datos continuos, teorema de Pitágoras, volúmenes, relaciones entre distancia, velocidad y tiempo.

The Mathematics teacher and curriculum change. 'El profesor de Matemáticas y el cambio de currículo'.

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Physics and Mathematics in the Engineering Curriculum: Correlation with Applied Subjects

This paper presents a study in which the relationship between basic subjects (Mathematics and Physics) and applied engineering subjects (related to Machinery, Electrical Engineering, Topography and Buildings) in higher engineering education curricula is evaluated. The analysis has been conducted using the academic records of 206 students for five years. Furthermore, 34 surveys and personal interviews were conducted to analyze the connections between the contents taught in each subject and to identify student perceptions of the correlation with other subjects or disciplines. At the same time, the content of the different subjects have been analyzed to verify the relationship among the disciplines.Aproper coordination among subjects will allow students to relate and interconnect topics of different subjects, even with the ones learnt in previous courses, while also helping to reduce dropout rates and student failures in successfully accomplishing the different courses.

Pursuing excellence : a study of U.S. eighth-grade mathematics and science teaching, learning, curriculum, and achievement in international context /

Mode of access: Internet.

Course and curriculum improvement materials : mathematics, science, social sciences.

Updates and replaces the pre-college portions of NSF 68-24, Released textbooks, films, and other teaching materials.

Mathematics essentials for the war effort. Prepared at Florida curriculum laboratory, University of Florida.

Mode of access: Internet.