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Digital technology in mathematics education: Why it works (or doesn't) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The integration of digital technology confronts teachers, educators and researchers with many questions. What is the potential of ICT for learning and teaching, and which factors are decisive in making it work in the mathematics classroom? To investigate
Drijvers, Paul   +3 more
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Gruberʼs Karst Research

open access: yesActa Carsologica, 2016
Ob dvestoletnici smrti Gabrijela Gruberja smo opisali njegovo raziskovanje krasa, Cerkniškega jezera in reke Timav. Pojasnili smo, zakaj je številne nove Gabrijelove dosežke njegov mlajši polbrat Tobija objavil pod svojim imenom.
Stanislav Južnič
doaj   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Leitura crítica da história: reflexões sobre a história da matemática History's critical reading: reflexions on the history of mathematics

open access: yesCiência & Educação, 2004
Muitos elementos que fornecem informações para a escrita da história apresentam direcionamentos representativos de uma forma de pensamento, seja ela política, filosófica ou de cunho social.
Sergio Nobre
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Maori preservice primary teachers’ responses to mathematics investigations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
There has been concern for some years about the low mathematics achievement of Maori students in New Zealand. This case study reports on the responses of 18 Maori preservice teachers to investigative approaches to learning mathematics during their ...
Hāwera, Ngārewa
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On the invisibility and impact of Robert Hooke’s theory of gravitation

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2020
Robert Hooke’s theory of gravitation is a promising case study for probing the fruitfulness of Menachem Fisch’s insistence on the centrality of trading zone mediators for rational change in the history of science and mathematics.
Guicciardini Niccolò
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Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
wiley   +1 more source

Water, pipes and the cholera pathogen: The colonial politics of germs and water infrastructures in the Philippines

open access: yesSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.
This paper examines how the politics of water governance intersected with germ suppression during US colonial rule in the Philippines. Drawing on historical materials and policy documents, we critically trace two interrelated processes of hydroterritorialization through which cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s spurred the production of sanitary ...
Rhomir S. Yanquiling   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making mathematics meaningful: Using student-initiated problems to situate mathematics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Mathematics is everywhere-from the minute we open our eyes to check the alarm clock and calculate how many minutes extra we can afford to lie in bed, to measuring out our cereal for breakfast and estimating if we have enough petrol to make the 18 ...
Brough, Chris Jane, Calder, Nigel Stuart
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Summary of Research 1998, Department of Mathematics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.This report contains summaries of research projects in the Department of Mathematics.
Faculty of the Department of Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School
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