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from the no-royal-road-to-understanding-students dept.
Oxford researchers are taking part in an international study to film the teaching of quadratic equations for secondary school pupils. The hope is that lessons will be learned on how to bring out the best in pupils learning about mathematics.
Over the next few months, video cameras will appear in secondary schools across England that have chosen to take part in an international study to observe maths lessons focused on quadratic equations. Researchers from the University of Oxford have joined forces with the Education Development Trust to undertake the study in England, which will involve up to 85 schools from different parts of the country. The research team has to enlist 85 teachers and around 1,200 pupils, so they can analyse video footage of different teaching practices and pupils' responses to assess what works best. Schools in Oxfordshire will be among those approached about taking part in the pilot.
The research project is led by Education Development Trust, working with Dr Jenni Ingram and Professor Pam Sammons from the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. They will analyse how pupils' attitudes toward quadratic equations are linked with their progress and results, and observe how teachers' attitudes and methods affect outcomes.
Dr Ingram said: "We believe this study will improve our understanding of the relationships between a range of teaching practices and various student outcomes, including their enjoyment of mathematics, mathematical knowledge and engagement with learning."
Or you could watch Khan Academy.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Tuesday March 28 2017, @05:47PM (2 children)
Yes and this can be mentioned in passing. Not turning it into the core of a curriculum. Science and technology have moved on from there. We no longer live in Pythagoras', Euclid's or even Al Qwarizma's world. Here's the formula. This is how it was derived. This is what it does. This is how you work it. Do examples 1-10. NEXT.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:45PM
i would prefer to live in kazzie's world...
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:55PM
Hm, so you would like to take an interesting intellectual opportunity to broaden students' minds and turn it into an assembly line for rote memorization? I'm sorry, but that's the kind of thinking that has led us to where we are now: massive numbers of students having difficulty with algebra because they just don't "get it". It's not that they can't plug numbers into a formula. Anybody can do that. It's that nothing has clicked in their minds to make the formula interesting enough to actually learn.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?