Incorporation of mathematics into biology curricula is critical to underscore for undergraduate students the relevance of mathematics to most fields of biology and the usefulness of developing quantitative process skills demanded in modern biology. At our institution, we have made significant changes to better integrate mathematics into the undergraduate biology curriculum. The curricular revis...

Incorporation of mathematics into biology curricula is critical to underscore for undergraduate students the relevance of mathematics to most fields of biology and the usefulness of developing quantitative process skills demanded inmodern biology. At our institution,we havemade significant changes to better integrate mathematics into the undergraduate biology curriculum. The curricular revision...

This article presents the participatory curriculum development process and foundational Diné (Navajo) concepts that inform the Tools for Iina (Life) curriculum, designed for grades 4-6 by a group of Diné educators to strengthen resiliency by addressing children's health, relationships, identity, and sense of the future, utilizing core concepts from Diné oral tradition. Rather than develop a cur...

Our upper-level university honors course, entitled Great Theorems: The Art of Mathematics, views mathematics as art and examines selected mathematical masterpieces from antiquity to the present. Following a common practice in the humanities, for example in Chicago’s Great Books program and St. John’s College curriculum, we have students read original texts without any modern writer or instructo...

The University of Alabama is an active participant in the NSF-sponsored Foundation Coalition, a partnership of seven institutions who are actively involved in fundamental reform of undergraduate engineering education. As part of this effort, the University of Alabama has developed an integrated first-year curriculum for engineering students. This curriculum consists primarily of an integrated b...

riculum Framework of 1985. At the elementary school level, broadening the primary focus of the mathematics curriculum on arithmetic skill and learning through memorization to develop mathematical thinking and understanding of concepts as well will require a major shift in emphasis for many teachers. Unless teachers themselves are given an opportunity to reconsider their own images of mathematic...

This study investigated views held about mathematics education by parents of a small inner-city primary school. Similarities in responses indicated consistency of ideas. Respondents demonstrated a broad understanding of mathematics and disagreed with a number of stereotypical statements about mathematics and mathematics education. They were keen to increase their knowledge and understanding of ...

BACKGROUND Curriculum documents identify key concepts within learning prosthetics. Threshold concepts provide an alternative way of viewing the curriculum, focussing on the ways of thinking and practicing within prosthetics. Threshold concepts can be described as an opening to a different way of viewing a concept. This article forms part of a larger study exploring what students and staff exper...

The aim of this study is to examine the contribution data learning area general objectives mathematics curriculum. was designed with case study, which one qualitative research designs. A total 160 students from 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades were asked open-ended question in order determine purposes teaching After answers given by read analyzed one, field aims education tried be supported student...