According to research from Carnegie Mellon University kids solve math problems by going through four distinct stages: encoding (reading and understanding the problem); planning (working out how to tackle it); solving (crunching the numbers) and responding (typing in the correct answer). This follows the general path that is set out …
In the TV-series Numbers Professor of Mathematics, Charlie Eppes is helping FBI to solve crimes with his special knowledge and skills. One can perhaps question the TV-series title since the core is not the numbers in itself but how to use them to solve in this case crimes. But it …
eLearningworld News from Sweden The Swedish startup company eEducation Albert is now launching an artificial intelligence application with focus on helping pupils with their homework in math during the last years of primary school. The startup-company intend to expand to other education-levels as well as the international market during the …
eLearningworld News from the Netherlands January 23, 2016 the Dutch Government presented the outcome of the first step of the ambitious project Education 2032 where the visions were outlined. State Secretary of Education Sander Dekker stating that, “the further elaboration of the ideas will rely on the enthusiasm, commitment and …
eLearningworld News from Sweden Teachers of mathematics in Japan do not handle a new math-problem by showing the solution on the blackboard. Instead they are letting the students guess the answer by taking a non-authoritative role in the classroom. This is a much more active pedagogical approach that has proved …
eLearningworld News from Sweden National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm has invested approx €8 million in the new science centre MegaMind that opens September 6. The purpose is to help school’s increase their pupils’ interest in Science, Technology and Mathematics. This by offering a hands-on science centre to …
eLearningworld News from Norway The Norwegian government has is about to launch a math-teacher-training project that will run over five years. The goal is to improve the skills for 10 000 teachers and the main tool is new developed Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). With this method the government expects …
