The Experimenter's A-Z of Mathematics
The Experimenter's A-Z of Mathematics

Author: Steve Humble

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1134139462

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Mathematics at all levels is about the joy in the discovery; it's about finding things out. This fascinating book is a guide to that discovery process, presenting ideas for practical classroom-based experiments and extension activities. Each experiment is based on the work of a key mathematician who has shaped the way that the subject looks today, and there are historical notes to help teachers bring this work to life. The book includes instructions on how to recreate the experiments using practical mathematics, computer programs and graphical calculators; ideas for follow-up work; background information for teachers on the mathematics involved; and links to the new secondary numeracy strategy framework. Accompanying the book is a CD-ROM with downloadable computer programs that can be used and reworked as part of the experimental process. With a wide range of topics covered, and plenty of scope for interesting follow-up activities, the book will be a valuable tool for mathematics teachers looking to extend the curriculum.

Fun Projects for the Experimenter - volume 2
Fun Projects for the Experimenter - volume 2

Author: Newton C. Braga

Publisher: Editora Newton C. Braga

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 8565050750

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During more than 30 years, as a collaborator with American, European and Latin American electronics magazines (*), has published a large assortment of practical circuits using common parts. In 1999 he included the first selection in a volume published by Prompt Publications in USA. The idea was to proceed with the series, publishing many volumes more. But, Prompt closed his activities and the idea was forgotten although the first volume became a best seller. Now with his own publishing house (NCB Publications) the author returned with the idea of make many volumes more of the series. So, the second volume is here proceeding with the same idea: give simple projects to the experimenters who want learn electronics using common parts and with no need of special knowledge about electronics. So, as in the first volume, many of the projects collected by the author are included in this volume, most of which you can build in one evening. The projects range from fun types through practical types to amusement types. Of course, there are other devices that can be used to teach you something about circuits and components. An important feature of theses projects are the ideas to Explore, intended for students looking for projects in science or to use in practical research. This ideal can be complemented by our book Science Fair and Technology Education Projects, also published in English by the author. We can consider this book as a source book of the easiest and fun-to-make of hundreds of projects created and published by the author during his life. (see more about Newton C. Braga in "about the author" in his site).

Pitfalls in Human Research
Pitfalls in Human Research

Author: Theodore Xenophon Barber

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1483138038

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Pitfalls in Human Research examines 10 ten pivotal points in human research where investigators and experimenters can go astray. Two questions are addressed: At what pivotal points in the complex research process can the experimental study go astray and give rise to misleading results and conclusions? What steps can researchers take to avoid these pitfalls? To answer these questions, those aspects of experimental studies that are under the control of the investigator as well as those aspects that are under the control of the experimenter are examined. This book begins by making a distinction between the investigator and the experimenter, arguing that their roles are functionally quite different. The discussion then turns to the 10 pitfalls in human research, divided into investigator effects and experimenter effects: investigator paradigm effect; investigator experimental design effect; investigator loose procedure effect; investigator data analysis effect; investigator fudging effect; experimenter personal attributes effect; experimenter failure to follow the procedure effect; experimenter misrecording effect; experimenter fudging effect; and experimenter unintentional expectancy effect. This monograph will be a useful resource for both investigators and experimenters, as well as those who utilize research results in their teaching or practice.

Psychology for VCE Units 3 and 4, 8e learnON and Print
Psychology for VCE Units 3 and 4, 8e learnON and Print

Author: John Grivas

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2023-01-04

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 1119888107

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Jacaranda Psychology VCE Units 3 and 4 Everything your students need to succeed. Victoria's most trusted VCE Psychology resource, streamlined. Expert author, John Grivas, provides essential knowledge and clear guidance to help you navigate the new Study Design and get students exam ready. Get exam ready: past VCAA exam questions (all since 2013) Students can start preparing from lesson one, with past VCAA exam questions embedded in every lesson. Practice, customisable SACs available for all Units to build student competence and confidence. Concise research-based content to support all students Based on feedback from teachers, expert author John Grivas has streamlined the content to cover the new Study Design, giving students clear and targeted guidance through the entire VCE Psychology course. Learn online with Australia’s most powerful learning platform, learnON Be confident your students can get unstuck and progress, in class or at home. For every question online they receive immediate feedback. Teacher-led videos to learn and re-learn. Instant reports make tracking progress simple.

Artifacts in Behavioral Research
Artifacts in Behavioral Research

Author: Robert Rosenthal

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-08-03

Total Pages: 907

ISBN-13: 0199725179

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This new combination volume of three-books-in-one, dealing with the topic of artifacts in behavioral research, was designed as both introduction and reminder. It was designed as an introduction to the topic for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and younger researchers. It was designed as a reminder to more experienced researchers, in and out of academia, that the problems of artifacts in behavioral research, that they may have learned about as beginning researchers, have not gone away. For example, problems of experimenter effects have not been solved. Experimenters still differ in the ways in which they see, interpret, and manipulate their data. Experimenters still obtain different responses from research participants (human or infrahuman) as a function of experimenters' states and traits of biosocial, psychosocial, and situational origins. Experimenters' expectations still serve too often as self-fulfilling prophecies, a problem that biomedical researchers have acknowledged and guarded against better than have behavioral researchers; e.g., many biomedical studies would be considered of unpublishable quality had their experimenters not been blind to experimental condition. Problems of participant or subject effects have also not been solved. We usually still draw our research samples from a population of volunteers that differ along many dimensions from those not finding their way into our research. Research participants are still often suspicious of experimenters' intent, try to figure out what experimenters are after, and are concerned about what the experimenter thinks of them.

Studies in Reflecting Abstraction
Studies in Reflecting Abstraction

Author: Jean Piaget

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-04-04

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1317762738

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This translation of the French Recherches sur l'abstraction reflechissante (1977), make available in English Piaget's only treatise on reflecting abstraction - a process he came to attribute considerable importance to in his later thinking and which he believed to be responsible for many of the advances that take place in human development, especially our understanding of mathematics. Rich with empirical research on reflecting abstraction at work in the thinking of 4 to 12 year olds, the studies in this volume examine its role in many contexts of cognitive development such as: reasoning about mathematics; forming analogies; putting objects in order by size and comparing the resulting series; and navigating through a wire maze. His theoretical discussions explore the relationships between reflecting abstraction and other central processes in his later theory, such as generalization, becoming conscious, and equilibration, as the differentiation of possibilities and their integration into necessities. These discussions indicate which aspects of his later theorizing were settled and which require further thought and investigation. Studies in Reflecting Abstraction will be of interest to developmental and cognitive psychologists, educationalists, philosophers and anyone who seeks to understand human knowledge and its development.