Third Graders’ Misconceptions about Evaporation and Liquefaction Phenomena A. Badriyaan, Ph.D. Concepts of evaporation and liquefaction are of significance in both daily life and the school curriculum, yet misconceptions about these two phenomena are frequent. To assess the extent of such misconceptions among third graders, a cluster sample of 132 of them from four schools i...

ideas too. Just watch teachers and students in a math classroom. Professors Martha Alibali and Mitchell Nathan have. They study how and why teachers and students use gestures to communicate mathematical concepts. From their perspective, mathematical knowledge doesn’t just reside in the mind. It’s embodied. Why is it important to know that mathematical knowledge is embodied? Nathan and Alibali s...

Presuppositions regarding the proper relationship between logic and psychology are deeply embedded in any educational philosophy or theory regarding curriculum and instruction. Educational philosophers and curriculum theorists have long grappled with the relationship between the logical structure of subject matter knowledge and the psychological processes involved in understanding those structu...

This paper reports on the pilot phase of a phenomenographic study which explores the relationship between teachers' and students' perceptions of the curriculum and theory of threshold concepts, which claims that there are concepts in all disciplines which must be understood, if learners are to progress to a more advanced level of understanding. It is suggested that threshold concepts may repres...

Statistics is taught as a core course in the Management programmes leading to the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) or an equivalent degree in various Universities and Management Institutes in India. As a part of this course, Probability Theory, and Probability distributions are covered. The students who are admitted to this course are drawn from various disciplines; their level...

Students on Business School courses will require a certain level of numerical ability; therefore, Mathematics and Statistics are important elements the curriculum (Cottee et. al., 2014). often struggle with these quantitative parts their course this is sometimes seen as part general "Mathematics Problem" that impacts many disciplines including biology, economics, nursing psychology (Mac an Bhai...

Edutainment has recently been a major growing area of education, showing great promise to motivate students with relevant activities. The authors are among innovators who have developed cutting-edge fusions of popular culture and STEM concepts to engage and to motivate middle school students, using vehicles such as music/song and skateboarding. The importance of using relevant and practical met...