The purposes of this study were to compare the differences in the use of geometry in elementary school mathematics textbooks among Finland, Mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, and the USA and to investigate the relationships between the design of the textbooks and students’ performance on large-scale tests such as TIMSS-4 geometry, TIMSS-8 geometry, and PISA space and shape. The content analysis...

This paper presents an analysis of how the geometry component of the National Curricula for mathematics in Japan and in one selected country of the UK, specifically Scotland, is interpreted by textbook writers. While, of course, textbooks are not the only critical influences on student learning, such texts, as analyses of data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMS...

This study investigated the impact of visual-kinesthetic tasks on ESP university students’ vocabulary learning. Two intact classes of university students were selected as control (23 students) and experimental (36 students) group. A proficiency test, a pretest and a posttest were administered and the students were exposed to a set of treatments. Also a questionnaire administered to students, re...

Analysis Using Web Tools Tomofumi NAKANO and Yukie KOYAMA Nagoya Institute of Technology Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 Japan {nakano, koyama}@center.nitech.ac.jp Abstract. This study includes an original corpus of engineering journals and is part of the series of E-Learning & English for Specific Purposes (ESP) researches . Purposes (ESP) researches that includes an original corpus of e...

ESP and AH protocols make use of various cryptographic algorithms to provide confidentiality and/or data origin authentication to protected data communications in the IP Security (IPsec) architecture. To ensure interoperability between disparate implementations, the IPsec standard specifies a set of mandatory-toimplement algorithms. This document specifies the current set of mandatory-to-implem...

the goal of the present research was to study the content organization of the textbooks taught in level one hawza illmiya curriculum and its ideal characteristics on the basis of the thematic integration approach. we first reviewed the relevant theoretical ideas and conducted a primary interview with some of professors teaching in seminaries, upon which we composed a list of characteristics of ...