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  • Mathematical Modelling Programs in Latin America

    A Collaborative Context for Social Construction of Knowledge for Educational Change

    Edited by Milton Rosa, Francisco Cordero, Daniel Clark Orey, Pablo Carranza ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is about the unique, sophisticated, and rigorous study of mathematics in Latin America developed over centuries of cultural exchange between Europe, North, and South America. More specifically, the book explores the tradition of mathematical modelling, introduced a century ago. This modelling was adapted to assist members of distinct communities to draw information about their own ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Ethnomathematics in Action

    Mathematical Practices in Brazilian Indigenous, Urban and Afro Communities

    Edited by Milton Rosa, Cristiane Coppe de Oliveira ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a collection of ethnomathematical studies of diverse mathematical practices in Afro-Brazilian, indigenous, rural and urban communities in Brazil. Ethnomathematics as a research program aims to investigate the interrelationships of local mathematical knowledge sources with broader universal forms of mathematics to understand ideas, procedures, and practices found in distinct ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ethnomathematics and its Diverse Approaches for Mathematics Education

    Edited by Milton Rosa, Lawrence Shirley, Maria Elena Gavarrete, Wilfredo V. Alangui ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses numerous issues related to ethnomathematics and diverse approaches to it in the context of mathematics education. To help readers better understand the development of ethnomathematics, it discusses its objectives and assumptions with regard to promoting an ethics of respect, solidarity, and cooperation across and for all cultures. In turn, the book addresses a range of aspects ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Current and Future Perspectives of Ethnomathematics as a Program

    by Milton Rosa, Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, Daniel Clark Orey, Lawrence Shirley, Wilfredo V. Alangui, Pedro Palhares, Maria Elena Gavarrete ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This survey on the modernity of ethnomathematics addresses numerous themes related to both ethnomathematics and mathematics education. It offers a broader view of mathematics, including ideas, procedures, concepts, processes, methods, and practices rooted in distinct cultural environments. In addition, by reflecting on the social and political dimensions of ethnomathematics, another important ... Read more

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    Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Corinne Bieder ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between ... Read more

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  • AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City

    Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

    Edited by Jean-Paul Close ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred to making visible the invisible from an air quality and human exposure perspective. Phase 2 studies air quality related to health and Phase 3 looks at air quality, health and lifestyle from the perspective of persuasion to innovative change.The three books together describe ... Read more

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  • Elements of Robotics

    by Mordechai Ben-Ari, Francesco Mondada ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students, such as calculus, matrices and probability. Concepts and algorithms are explained ... Read more

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  • Characterizing Pedagogical Flow

    An Investigation of Mathematics and Science Teaching in Six Countries

    Edited by W.H. Schmidt ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Characterizing Pedagogical Flow presents conclusions from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research project blending quantitative and qualitative approaches through a discourse methodology. The work produced portraits of mathematics and science education that were dramatically different for each of the countries involved: France, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. To ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Comprehensive Teacher Induction

    Systems for Early Career Learning

    by E.D. Britton, L. Paine, S. Raizen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides a detailed examination of how systems located within five countries shape the early career learning of beginning teachers. It describes, discusses and analyzes comprehensive teacher induction found within France, Japan, New Zealand, Shanghai and Switzerland. We refer to the phenomena we observed as induction ‘systems’ because they are am- tious, substantial and established: all ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean

    The Cases of Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela

    Edited by Angel Ruiz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives.In August 2012, a workshop of the Capacity and Networking Project (CANP) of the International Commission on ... Read more

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  • Chinese Students' Higher Achievement in Mathematics

    Comparison of Mathematics Education of Australian and Chinese Primary Schools

    by Dacheng Zhao ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book shares insights into the achievement gap in mathematics between East Asian and Western countries, and the ways to improve students’ mathematics achievements. Especially, it highlights the importance to integrate case studies with large-scale international comparative studies in general, and comparative studies of mathematics education in particular. This book is a must-read for ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Many Visions, Many Aims

    Volume 2: A Cross-National Investigation of Curricular Intensions in School Science

    Edited by W.H. Schmidt, S. Raizen, E.D. Britton, Leonard J. Bianchi, Richard G. Wolfe ...
    PREFACE The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and the g- ernments of the participating countries, is acomparative study of education in mathematics and the sciences conducted in approximately 50 educational systems on six continents. The goal of TIMSS is to measure student ... Read more

    $143.99 USD