School Science and Mathematics articles from April 2009

School Science and Mathematics archives from April 2009

Interesting science and mathematics graduate students in secondary teaching.(Report)
April 1, 2009... State and national initiatives attempt to increase the quantity and quality of secondary mathematics and science teachers. Research suggests that if one could appeal to something inside of people or about the process of teaching and learning...

A cross discipline study of reformed teaching by university science and mathematics faculty.(Report)
April 1, 2009... Researchers observed 28 university faculty in graduate and undergraduate science and mathematics courses in a three-year, longitudinal study of teaching. Subjects were selected from five higher education institutions in the state where faculty...

Turkish prospective chemistry teachers' alternative conceptions about acids and bases.(Report)
April 1, 2009... Middle East Technical University The purpose of this study was to obtain prospective chemistry teachers 'conceptions about acids and bases concepts. Thirty-eight prospective chemistry teachers were the participants. Data were collected by means...

Crossing the barriers between preservice and inservice mathematics teacher education: an evaluation of the grant school professional development program.
April 1, 2009... A 2-year school-based mathematics professional development program is described and evaluated after its first year of implementation. Included in this program as its first course was a unique methods course in elementary education involving...

Cosmology 101.(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Cosmology 101 Author: Kristine M. Larsen Greenwood Press 88 Post Road West Westport CT 06881 2007; 216 pages Hardback $49.95 When early humans looked up into the sky, they saw the sun, moon, stars, and those...

Electricity and Magnetism: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science).(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Electricity and Magnetism: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science) Author: Brian Baigrie Greenwood Press 88 Post Road West Westport CT 06881 2007; 185 pages Hardback $65.00 As the...

Problems section.
April 1, 2009... This section of the Journal offers readers an opportunity to exchange interesting mathematical problems and solutions. Please send them to: Ted Eisenberg, Department of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel; or fax to:...