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Study meeting in San Severino Marche Italy
12th – 18th February 2007

macchina di turingPresentation mathematical extension, poster: Alan Turing his study, Alan Turing his life, Alan Turing his life, Machine of Turing, Conic sections, logatithms: the personalities, logatithms applications,Definition properties and uses of logatithms, Women and Maths, Our journey in Badalona...

Test “Students and Maths“

Test to compare curricula and methods of teaching mathematics in different European schools.

Test evaluation synthesis

1st area: Motivation of the Maths study

Maths is important and useful in the life for the students (Strong point), but the same students think that it’s difficult to study and it’s not easy to achieve the prefixed objectives (weak point).

2nd area: Environment and family influences

The relationship with the parents is generally good, the families think that Maths is important and they stimulate the students to the study without giving the fault of their failures (strong point), but the scientific knowledge are a little spread and there is not interest to widen them (weak point).

3rd area: Method of study adopted

The students try to do their homework (strong point), but they get tired if they find some difficulties and abandon at once (weak point). When they are at school they listen to enough during the whole lesson (strong point), but they take their mind off easily ( weak point). 4th area: Performance anxiety and prejudices The students believe to be able to comprehend Maths (strong point), they are not proud of their results, but they don’t want to work harder in the study to improve their own performance (weak point).

Mathematician Women

Mini web site "Mathematician Women" - http://www.divini.net/tlm3/mw, made by the Polish and Italian students. donne matematicheThey would like to know something more about the unknown “ladies of the maths”. Till the second half of the 20th Century only few women have approached maths; they have been considered anomalous figures, they have been mocked and sometime underestimated. The 20th Century is the century in which the meeting between maths and women has been realized, the fact has been disproved the theory based on the prejudices about the assumed incompatibility of the women in maths.

 

 

 

[Imagine, http://www.ecologiasociale.org/pg/matematica.html]

 


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