Solving math and science problems in the real world with a computational mind

  1. Olabe Basogain, Juan Carlos
  2. Olabe Basogain, Miguel Angel
  3. Basogain Olabe, Xabier
  4. Maiz Olazabalaga, Inmaculada
  5. Castaño Garrido, Carlos Manuel
Revue:
NAER: Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research

ISSN: 2254-7339

Année de publication: 2014

Volumen: 3

Número: 2

Pages: 75-82

Type: Article

DOI: 10.7821/NAER.3.2.75-82 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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This article presents a new paradigm for the study of Math and Sciences curriculum during primary and secondary education. A workshop for Education undergraduates at four different campuses (n=242) was designed to introduce participants to the new paradigm. In order to make a qualitative analysis of the current school methodologies in mathematics, participants were introduced to a taxonomic tool for the description of K-12 Math problems. The tool allows the identification, decomposition and description of Type-A problems, the characteristic ones in the traditional curriculum, and of Type-B problems in the new paradigm. The workshops culminated with a set of surveys where participants were asked to assess both the current and the new proposed paradigms. The surveys in this study revealed that according to the majority of participants: (i) The K-12 Mathematics curricula are designed to teach students exclusively the resolution of Type-A problems; (ii) real life Math problems respond to a paradigm of Type-B problems; and (iii) the current Math curriculum should be modified to include this new paradigm.

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