Forming mathematical skills for gifted students

Fuzzy Measures for Students’ Mathematical Modelling Skills

MM is one of the central ideas in the nowadays mathematics education. In an earlier paper applying ideas from fuzzy logic we have developed a model formalizing the MM process and we have used the total possibilistic uncertainty as a measure of students’ MM capacities. In the present paper we develop two alternative fuzzy measures for MM. The first of them concerns an adaptation for use in a fuz...

Gifted and talented students

Can E-Training Packages Develop Webquests Designing Skills for Teachers of Gifted Students?

The research aimed to study the effectiveness of using an E-training package to develop Webquest designing skills for teachers of gifted students. The main research question was how well gifted students’ teachers acquire the Webquest’s designing skills after studying the proposed E-training package? The research follows a quasiexperimental design for one group. The sample consists of 23 teacher...

Optimising the Learning of Gifted Aboriginal Students

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (2000) “Education for All” goals, all students are entitled to opportunities to fulfil their potential. This implies that appropriate programs need to be in place for all children, especially gifted Aboriginal students. Accordingly, this means that all educational institutions in Australia have an obligation to ...

Broad approaches for identifying gifted and talented students

This is one of the most commonly used methods of identification, and its effectiveness varies enormously. Identification of gifted and talented students improves when teachers are informed of the nature and purpose of the programme for gifted and talented students. Teachers are likely to support their judgments with the help of tools, such as checklists, teacher observation scales, and student ...