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Vroutsis, Nikolaos; Psycharis, Giorgos; Triantafillou, Chrissavgi – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2022
In this article we address the 'educationalization' of authentic marine navigation tasks for upper secondary mathematics classrooms and their potential for students' learning. Our approach is based on boundary crossing and as well as on the distinction between realistic tasks (targeting students' familiarization with the marine navigation…
Descriptors: Navigation, Secondary School Students, Grade 10, Mathematics Instruction
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Murphy, Evan; Hughes, Stephen – Physics Education, 2014
The determination of latitude and longitude on Earth has always been of interest to explorers and cartographers alike. Accurate positional information is often needed for rescue purposes in locations where satellite navigational systems are inoperable. The activity described in this paper demonstrates a simple procedure to determine latitude and…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Astronomy, Navigation, Geographic Location
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Johnson, Denise Terry; Chandler, Farrah Jackson – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2009
Teacher education programs are designed to provide candidates opportunities to explore effective ways to teach K-12 students mathematics. Although many of these experiences engage candidates in investigations of pedagogies using technology, manipulatives, media, etc., they often only involve and emphasize more formal experiences such as…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Informal Education, Teacher Education Programs, Learning Experience
Taylor, E. H. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The object of this report is to give an account, in such a form as to allow comparisons, of the instruction in mathematics in the Lower and Middle Commercial and Industrial Schools in the countries reporting to the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics. The data of this report have been taken entirely from the reports of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction