How Do We Make Math More Important? Confronting Issues in the Education of Mathematics in the Galapagos Islands
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Authors
Finnemann, Nicole Marae
Issue Date
2003
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
Due to various amazing factors, I was privileged enough to spend my summer of
the year 2002 on Santa Cruz of the Galapagos Islands, where I worked with the local
education system and all of its members to improve upon the existing methods used for
teaching mathematics. My work centered at a school for kindergarten through ninth grade
called Tomas de Berlanga where I became closely involved with six teachers who taught
math as well as with their classes of students. We worked together as a team to develop a
personalized, ideal model for a mathematics curriculumn. We spent weeks implementing
our ideas in a series of trial and error endeavors - of which I highlight the successes in
this paper. At the end of August, after weeks of working together and having to deal with
various unforeseen obstacles, the seven of us gave a presentation to surrounding
community members. Our message was that mathematics are important for our lives
outside of the numbers that they involve. We wanted to show that math is creative, and
needs to be treated so. The following is a written account of the essence of my summer.
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v, 55 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo College
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