Terminology and deenitions are proposed for the application of systems concepts to Adaptive Behavior research. The deenition of a system can be applied to agents and environments in several ambiguous ways. For this reason, a distinction is introduced between a mechanistic perspective and a functional perspective. For both perspectives a methodology is proposed for estimating the number of state...

The purpose of this article is to describe the integration of epistemological principles, theories about levels of argumentation, and different worlds of abstraction to address secondary school students’ development of mathematical concepts. A pilot study concerning ‘volume and enlargements’ focuses on step-by-step solutions of classified problems to establish the progress of the process of abs...

Air quality, like weather, can affect everyone, but responses differ depending on the sensitivity and health condition of a given individual. To help protect exposed populations, many countries have put in place real-time air quality nowcasting and forecasting capabilities. We present in this paper an optimal combination of air quality measurements and model outputs and show that it leads to si...

Professional teachers can guarantee the progress and the promotion of society because fostering the development of next generation is up to them and depends on their professional knowledge which has two kinds of sources; content knowledge and teaching skill. The aim of the present research was studying the effect of integrating problem-based learning with Information and Communications Technolo...

We describe the development of a course to teach modeling and mathematical analysis skills to students of biology and to teach biology to students with strong backgrounds in mathematics, physics, or engineering. The two groups of students have different ways of learning material and often have strong negative feelings toward the area of knowledge that they find difficult. To give students a sen...

In the early 1990's many states tried to devise more robust and coherent instructional policies, in efforts to make teaching and learning more thoughtful and demanding. Policymakers and reformers pressed teachers to help students understand mathematical concepts, to interpret serious literature, to write creatively about their own ideas and experiences, and to converse thoughtfully about histor...

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...

Several authors (e.g. Dehaene, 1997) have proposed that mathematical concepts build upon an evolved innate number sense, which we share with many other species. However, they have left unspecified how these mathematical concepts can come into existence and how they are transmitted. Models of content biased cultural transmission (e.g. Boyer, 2001) predict that cultural traits that bear a close f...

The theme of this year's conference is “Making Mathematics Fun, Accessible and Challenging through Technology”. Version 6 of Mathematica, released in May 2007, is instantly interactive, allowing teachers and students to easily construct live interfaces to illustrate and investigate mathematical concepts at all levels [1]. Over 2000 examples of these interactive capabilities, including a number ...