Science education in elementary school: Some observations

Exploring Multiple Representations in Elementary School Science Education

This paper presents ourfindings after thefirst year and a halfof a multi-year deployment of an ImmersaDeskB to a local elementary school, investigating its effectiveness in enhancing science education. These findings deal with how VR can aid in the coordination of multiple representations, and how to integrate the technology into the existing school culture.

Teaching Science to Elementary School Deaf Children in Brazil

Discussions related to teaching deaf students in Brazil are mainly focused on language problems, and only a few address other issues, for example, teaching science for this group. During the observation of the recurrent successful results obtained by the experimental methodology used in science short courses for secondary school Deaf pupils, performed by the Deaf Project—UFRJ, the possibility o...

Research on Effective Teaching in Elementary School Physical Education

on some bayesian statistical models in actuarial science with emphasis on claim count

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Some remarks on the teaching of fractions in elementary school

It is widely recognized that there are at least two major bottlenecks in the mathematics education of grades K–8: the teaching of fractions and the introduction of algebra. Both are in need of an overhaul. I hope to make a contribution to the former problem by devising a new approach to elevate teachers’ understanding of fractions. The need for a better knowledge of fractions among teachers has...