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Fifth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 '07)
pp. 8-14
Promoting Mathematics as a Tool for a PBL Type High School Mathematics Curriculum - Its Design and Evaluation
Daisuke Yanase, Kyoto Municipal Horikawa Senior High School, Japan
Takeshi Fujioka, Kyoto Municipal Horikawa Senior High School, Japan
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We have designed a PBL curriculum for "Period for
integrated study" using mathematics as a tool for problem
solving and evaluated its effectiveness.
Students learned two methods, which were how to use
differential equation as a tool, and how to choose their own
problems, and solve them. We introduced a method using
spreadsheet in order to calculate numeric solutions of
differential equations. We instructed students so that they
would choose a problem that required differential equation in
order to solve it.
The curriculum was practiced at Kyoto Municipal Horikawa
Senior High School in Kyoto, Japan from October 2005 to
September 2006.
The curriculum was proved effective according to the
outcome of students' researches, the results of questionnaires
given after finishing the curriculum, and the impressions by the
teachers who participated in it. We also found ideas for future
improvement.
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Citation:
Daisuke Yanase, Takeshi Fujioka,
"Promoting Mathematics as a Tool for a PBL Type High School Mathematics Curriculum - Its Design and Evaluation,"
c5,
pp. 8-14,
Fifth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 '07),
2007
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