Flatland will help stimulate ideas of how to better get along with those they feel different from and uncomfortable around. I am really excited to use this book, along with other resources to help with learning activities that correspond to the book's topics, to increase my students' awareness of multiculturalism and provide a platform that presents mathematics in a new and life-application-level way. ... The Flatland society consists of regular shapes - lines, triangles, squares, heptagons, hexagons, all the way to circles. ... Hands-on manipulatives, cooperative group learning a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Obviously there is a difference between a community's diversity and knowing how, as a teacher, to deal with it. ... What is more likely to be the case is that most parents are willing to help their child's education but don't always know how (Cairney & Munsie, 1995, p.1). ... According to research, children from mainstream homes come to school with considerable language and literacy experience. ... Educators need to work with parents as partners and view diverse families as capable, cultural units, whose needs are formed by economic and political factors rather than poor pare...

• Word Count: 1973
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

And understanding how schools and community stakeholders establish meaningful partnerships helps make sense of why it is that some career transition programs are more successful than others. ... With these issues in mind, this paper reports on research undertaken between 2009 and 2010 involving one inner city school in the western suburbs of Melbourne. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside the school and their subsequent connections with career programs. ... Career programs that equip ...

• Word Count: 5495
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

And understanding how schools and community stakeholders establish meaningful partnerships helps make sense of why it is that some career transition programs are more successful than others. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside the school and their subsequent connections with career programs. ... Successful career and transition programs are of the key components currently linking communities with local schools. ... Career programs that equip young people with the skills necessary to ...

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During the seminar, the researcher had an informal interview with the other mathematics teacher, teaching Grade 7, in the district. ... The same is true with that of the experience of the researcher. ... This scenario encourages the researcher to conduct the study and at the same time helps the students to improve their competence in mathematics. ... With the mastery exercises, it can help Secondary schools to achieve higher performance in Mathematics 7. ... The learning competencies in Measurement includes describes what it means to measure; describes the development of measurement from the...

• Word Count: 4402
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The original OTA report on technology and education (OTA, 1988) dealt with the entire field. ... One area of that report dealt with teacher education. Then in 1995, OTA commissioned a series of studies dealing specifically with technology and teacher education. ... But a growing dissatisfaction with quantitative empirical research spawned other research paradigms. ... The greater differences, as we see it, are in what they do with the data and the purpose of the research. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate