"Students can all sniff out an inauthentic place of learning," the professor argues. "They think, If it's a game, fine, I'll play it for the grade, but I'm not going to learn anything."
a popular series of articles that the British Medical Journal published in 2003. Full text for these articles is available free online. BMJ is available free online through PubMed Central.
Looking at how teaching and learning needs to become more advance in terms of technology. We need to be addressing and creating our lessons using the technology that is readily available to us and that our students are using on a regular basis.
Suggests and addresses the need for further curriculum development within the IB PYP in terms of additional (often foreign) language learning within the diverse community of International schools that follow the IB curriculum, in order for schools to become more explicit and unified in their language policies. Includes suggestions for how additional language learning can be linked to the process of inquiry and the promotion of the core values of the IB, embodied in the PYP learner profile.
L. Lee. Approaches to algebra: perspectives for research and teaching, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p 102
… it is much of a challenge to demonstrate that functions, modelling, and problem solving are all types of generalizing activities, that algebra and indeed all of mathematics is about generalizing patterns.
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The history of the science of algebra is the story of the growth of a technique for representing of finite patterns.
The notion of the importance of pattern is as old as civilization. Every art is founded on the study of patterns.
Mathematics is the most powerful technique for the understanding of pattern, and for the analysis of the relationships of patterns.(1996)
M. Mawdesley, G. Long, S. Al-Jibouri, D. Scott, and J. Gribble. SAGSET 2008 - 38th Annual Conference: "Teaching and Learning through Gaming and Simulation, July 17-18, 2008, Nottingham University Business School, UK, (2008)