Textbooks are rich sources of knowledge. Harvesting knowledge from textbooks is a key challenge in many educational applications. In this paper, we present an approach to obtain axiomatic knowledge of geometry in the form of horn-clause rules from math textbooks. The approach uses rich contextual and typographical features extracted from the textbooks. It also leverages the redundancy and share...

among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. the wealth of published material for english language teaching (elt) available in the mark...

This study examined a corpus of 10 widely used prealgebra and algebra textbooks, with the goal of investigating whether they exhibited a symbol precedence view of mathematical development as is found among high school teachers. The textbook analysis focused on the sequence in which problem-solving activities were presented to students. As predicted, textbooks showed the symbol precedence view, ...

Science instructors and textbook authors often use analogies to help their students use information they already understand to develop an understanding of new concepts. This study reports the results of an analysis of the use of analogies in eight biochemistry textbooks, which included textbooks written for one-semester survey biochemistry courses for non-majors; two-semester courses for chemis...

introduction: quoting an article in well-known textbooks is held as a credit for that paper. the numbers of iranian publications mentioned in endodontic textbooks have increased during recent years. the aim of this investigation was to evaluate the number of iranian articles quoted in eminent endodontic text books. methods and materials: three known textbooks ( ingle’s endodontics, seltzer and ...

The study of history through school textbooks arguably is still the predominant medium for classroom learning in England. History textbooks are a powerful influence upon the development of the attitudes, values, perceptions and understanding of young citizens. Nowhere is the role of textbooks in personal orientation more pronounced than in textbooks on the Second World War. The paper analyses t...

Nearest-neighbor analysis (NNA)—a method for assessing the degree to which a spatial point pattern departs from randomness in direction of being either clustered or regular—was imported into academic geography an article published 1954 by ecologists Clark and Evans. In its simplest form, concerned with distances first nearest neighbor, NNA hinged on behavior “nearest-neighbour statistic,” Rn, s...

Imported English textbooks were introduced to Malaysian schools in line with Malaysia's new CEFR-aligned language curriculum. One of the books is PULSE 2, which concern about its foreign cultural content has been widely discussed. Therefore, this study aims analyze categories displayed 2 textbook for Form 1 syllabus, investigate how cultures and topics are students, identify perception teachers...