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Practical Life Activities in the Montessori System

1912). But if the student is truly interested in a subject rather than being forced to study it because its in the curriculum, he ...

Practical Life Exercises in the Montessori System

and listen quietly (Montessori, M., 1912). Her argument was that this artificial arrangement was difficult for everyone, and tha...

Introduction to Montessori

uses the external world to obtain information and knowledge (Montessori 1995). The child has an absorbent mind from birth to age...

Introduction to Montessori

it. She said: "It may be said that that we acquire knowledge by using our minds; but the child absorbs knowledge directly into his...

Child Development and the Montessori Method

than simply passing on knowledge: the individual has to develop into a fully integrated and high-functioning human being as well. ...

Montessori Philosophy

will make sure everything is at their height, there is a distinct difference between the left and the right sides of the room, and...

Mathematical Errors in 7th Grade

The following is a breakdown of the problem example given and the way in which the problem can be used to demonstrate why the mult...

Mathematics Lessons for Primary Learners

counting strategy of tally counting, taking a group of differentiated items, tallying the results for each item group. 3. To demo...

Questions and Prompts Mathematical Thinking

a student agreeing to do some of the work (Brousseau, 1997). It may be argued that this contract between teacher and student is ea...

“A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity”

use of mathematics generalizations could be made from certain observations which could be applied to other observations, that patt...

Jordanus Nemorarius And Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci

to those given by al-Khwarizmi" (OConnor and Robertson, 2003). Jordanus proofs had to do with "the method of completing the square...

Montessori - Reflection On Quotations

them involved. We have the opportunity to educate parents about how the environment affects their childs learning and development....

Math and Why There Are Some People Who Hate It

of history and not understand anything about ancient Egypt and yet still be able to comprehend history in the 17th century in Euro...

Axiomatic and Intuitive Mathematics

This information is seen as being self-evident, since it does not require any further analysis or proof to assert its validity. Th...

Mathematics; Anxiety And Commutative, Associative, And Distributive Laws

such as money is used, but in the way meals are made and served, schedules are personal schedules are put together and managed how...

Montessori: Nurturing the Spirit

complex function of knowledge. Once we are born, for example, Plato contends that we forget this realm of pure Forms but that kno...

Discoveries of Maria Montessori

in different ways, than most had presumed. She "set up a program to teach the young children how to care for themselves and their ...

Learning Reading and Phonics versus Whole Language Approaches

In nine pages this paper discusses how to teach children how to read in an assessment of the strenghts and weaknesses of phonic an...

Language Impaired Children and Math Performance Impact

In five pages this paper examines children with SLI or a specific language impairment in a consideration of characteristics and ho...

Mathematics and Cooperative Learning

In five pages the benefits of cooperative learning when applied to the teaching of mathematics are examined. Five sources are cit...

Math Anxiety, Understanding the Fear of Mathematics

significantly with mathematics achievement (Pajares & Miller, 1994), mathematics aptitude (Cooper & Robinson, 1991), and grades in...

Mathematical Concepts Relating to Cameras Including Aperture and Focal Points

In nine pages the relationship between mathematics and cameras is outlined in an examination of camera types along with focal leng...

System of Education in Japan

In seventeen pages this paper considers the elementary educational curriculum of Japan and the government controls that are in pla...

Overview of the Life of Greek Mathematician Euclid

In ten pages this paper discusses Euclid of Alexandria's life and his contributions to geometry and mathematics. There are 5 sour...

History of the Montessori Educational Method

were not extra-social beings, but were entitled to the benefits of education as much as, if not more than, normal ones (Standing 1...

Current Mathematics Instruction Methods of Assessment

is one of the most important factors for choosing between a norm-based test and a criterion-related test. Since norm-based tests ...

Teaching Math by Computer and Standard Textbook Math Education in Terms of Benefits

In a study consisting of ten pages the hypothesis that teaching math by computer generates significantly higher learning outcomes ...

Historical Theories on Health, Education, Society and the Individual

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the nursing profession's health care workers can benefit from the educational theories of...

Theories of Chaos and Numbers

In ten pages this paper examines chaos theory in an overview that includes history, theorists, mathematics, and also discusses suc...

Philosopher and Mathematician Pythagoras

In fifteen pages Pythagoras' life and his contributions to science, mathematics, and philosophy are discussed. There are 6 source...