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Students' perspectives on the nature of mathematics [PDF]
, 2006 This paper reports on one small component of a much larger study that explored the perspectives of students towards mathematics learning. Students were asked “What do you think maths is all about?” Some students responded in terms of mathematical content.
Taylor, Merilyn +3 more
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Towards a Theory of Inquiry Dialogue Questions
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract The success of an inquiry dialogue depends on the quality of its central question. Yet, evaluating inquiry dialogue questions is harder than it appears. One approach is to maintain that inquiry dialogue questions are philosophical questions, but there is no successful method of identifying all and only philosophical questions. Another approach
Aaron Yarmel
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Literature, Logic and Mathematics in the Fourteenth Century [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis assesses the extent to which fourteenth-century Middle English poets were interested in, and influenced by, traditions of thinking about logic and mathematics.
BAKER, DAVID,PHILIP
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disciplinary background of second language (L2) writers can shape their writing style, including their lexical choices. This study examines lexical differences in nonacademic argumentative essays on the same topic by L2‐English graduate students with humanities‐related or science‐related majors.
Haerim Hwang, Hyunwoo Kim
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Maori preservice primary teachers’ responses to mathematics investigations [PDF]
, 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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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Apuntes históricos de la lógica matemática
Educación y Ciencia, 2011 Entrega elementos de la historia de la lógica y su consolidación como fundamento de la demostración en matemáticas. Se identifican cuatro etapas o periodos, más o menos bien definidos, por los que se considera ha pasado esta disciplina, de acuerdo con ...
Alfonso Jiménez Espinosa, Johann Verney Méndez Gamba
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Science under caesar-politarch's patronage
Антиномии, 2020 The subject of this article is the specificity of socio-cultural situation in which the individual professionally engaging in natural sciences and mathematics does act in politary society (ancient Egypt, ancient India and China, medieval Arab-Muslim ...
Vyacheslav Y. Vasechko
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Manuscript Codices in the Library Collection of the Cistercian Abbey in Szczyrzyc
The Person and the Challenges, 2015 The collection of manuscripts at the Cistercian library in Szczyrzyc amounts to 100 volumes, including four medieval codices dated between 1460–1494; 12 manuscript books dated to the 17 th century; 57 dated to the 18 th century, and 27 ...
Jolanta M. Marszalska
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