Sentences with phrase «mathematics curriculum topic»

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The programme differs from the mathematics curriculum in England as it covers fewer topic in greater depth and is designed to have a cumulative effect, with the full benefit evident after five years.

She adds when she started working with Do, they deliberately selected topics that weren't specifically highlighted in the curriculum or assigned to a particular year group to allow teachers more of a «sense of creativity» and get them to think of mathematics more broadly — and in turn encourage students to think creatively.

For example, algorithmics and game theory are topics that are relevant for current advancements in a variety of fields that use mathematics, but tradition - oriented mathematics experts do not include them in their efforts to reform mathematics curriculum.

The primary difference between the current Utah mathematics core curriculum and the Common Core State Standards is that the common core focuses on mathematical topics with more depth than the current core.

Whereas some educational systems favour traditional topics such as sciences and mathematics or new subjects inspired by technological developments, many educational researchers are calling for soft skills to be represented in school curriculums.

A focused, coherent progression of mathematics learning, with an emphasis on proficiency with key topics, should become the norm in elementary and middle school mathematics curricula.

Because we wanted to maintain the hours of coursework equal between groups, MMC participants discussed more mathematics topics in depth, while LLMT participants focused only on the main topics of the elementary - school mathematics curriculum.

Many students struggle to learn challenging content area material across the curriculum (Ness, 2009), largely due to lack of student interest, even apathy, in important topics like experimental design in science, order of operations in mathematics, cultural and social change in social studies, and inferential thinking in language arts.

The time preservice teachers in the LLMT group spent on these activities was spent by the control group learning to teach mathematics topics of the K - 6 curriculum other than whole numbers and operations and rational numbers.