Statistical graphics in Mathematics text books for mexican Primary Education

Spreadsheets , graphics calculators and mathematics education

Over recent years, spreadsheets have been increasingly recognised as having a role in teaching and learning mathematics, but have continued to suffer the limitation of requiring access to computers. This paper summarises some of the potential benefits of spreadsheet use and briefly assesses some of the available research about it in schools. A spreadsheet application for a calculator is describ...

Combining Art and Mathematics in Computer Graphics Education

This paper presents an innovative education program at the University of Gävle, Sweden. The program, Creative Programming, combines traditional methods of teaching computer graphics, with other crossdisciplinary areas such as art, cognition, and film. The uniqueness of the program is represented by the students that are accepted and the teaching environment they are put in. A judicial process i...

Chapter 3 Fractals , Graphics , and Mathematics Education 1

The fundamental importance of education has always been very clear to me and it has been very frustrating, and certainly not a good thing in itself, that the bulk of my working life went without the pleasures and the agonies of teaching. On the other hand, there is every evidence, in my case, that being sheltered from academic life has often been a necessary condition for the success of my rese...

A New Model for Text Coherence Evaluation using Statistical Characteristics

What ain’t mathematics education?!

Abstract: In 1996 at the first Iranian Mathematics Education Conference (IMEC1) that was held in Isfahan. I obliged myself as a mathematics educator, to inform the mathematics community at large by presenting a paper entitled “what is mathematics education?” to pave the way for the establishment of the master program of mathematics education in Iran. Now, after 16 years, we need to reflect on t...