Proceedings of the 16th International Conference. Buy the book world-wide with google books. First, we conducted extensive interviews w 35 Bedouin elders and women to identify: 1. The mathematical elements of their daily lives- particularly traditional units of length and weight, 2.
Then we combined these with the standard curriculum to make an integrated 90 hours th grade teaching units that were implemented in Bedouin schools and in the Kidumatica Math Club for Excellent Students. Comparisons between the experimental groups and the control group 62 showed that studying by the integrated curriculum improved The cognitive aspects of the students 2.
The affective aspects. Keywords : Bedouin Cultures, ethnomathematics. The ability to manipulate and interpret data is an important component in decision making. A misunderstanding or poor grasp of data distributions and statistical methods can lead to assumptions that are not accurate. When these inaccurate assumptions are presented as factual to decision makers also possessing little or no statistical knowledge, poor decisions can be made.
This paper investigates how an interpretation of statistics played a role the decision to remove multiple-choice questions from invigilated examinations at a regional Australian university. The case is further argued that it is important for everyone to have a basic understanding of statistics.
Even though there are various forms of tessellations, we present three regular and Archimedean tessellations for conceptual analysis of the geometric concepts.
