Innovative Ways to Teach Mathematics: Are they Employed in Schools?

Nursing schools to teach new ways to cope with death.

Schools of Nursing will test new ways to include more palliative care training in undergraduate nursing programs, after a survey of 91 nursing schools revealed many inadequately prepare graduates to deal with death and dying. Funded by Health Canada, the twoyear project will pilot models for integrating a spate of new palliative care competencies into existing curriculum and accreditation stand...

Are They Helping Teachers Teach Comprehension ?

The report describes the last In a series of three studies whose purpose is to learn what is done with comprehension instruction in three settings: classrooms, basal reader manuals, and reading methodology textbooks. To find out whether authors of the methods books treat comprehension instruction with sufficient frequency and specificity as to be helpful to both teachers and prospective teacher...

Do You Need a PhD to Teach K – 8 Mathematics in Ways Respected by the Mathematics Education Community ?

The genesis of this editorial was a conversation about an article in which Ball (1991) provided descriptions of three teachers’ approaches to working with their students. In Ball’s article, teachers without PhDs in mathematics or mathematics education struggled to engage their students in developing meaningful concepts of mathematics. They could not p r o v i d e m u l t i p l e i n t e r p r e...

Learning Automation to Teach Mathematics

One of the recurrent controversies at our Engineering Faculty concerns the orientation of first year basic courses, particularly the subject area of mathematics, considering its role as an essential tool in technological disciplines. In order to provide the basic courses with technological applications, a mathematical engineering seminar was held at the Engineering Faculty of Barcelona. Session...

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