Breakdown of Topics

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Breakdown of Topics

• EDU 412-413

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What is Mathematics?

• A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a
  maker of patterns.   If his patterns are more
  permanent than theirs, it is because they are
  made with ideas
• (Hardy, A Mathematicians Apology , p. 84)

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Math Breakdown

• Algebra
• Arithmetic
• Statistics Probability
• Geometry

• Functions
• Logic
• Graph Theory
• Trigonometry

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According to Websters

• the science of numbers and their operations,
  interrelations, combinations, generalizations,
  and abstractions and of space configurations and
  their structure, measurement, transformations,
  and generalizations

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What is Science?

• Science is the concerted human effort to
  understand, or to understand better, the history
  of the natural world and how the natural world
  works, with observable physical evidence as the
  basis of that understanding. It is done through
  observation of natural phenomena, and/or through
  experimentation that tries to simulate natural
  processes under controlled conditions.

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Science Breakdown

• Animals
• Environment
• Geology
• Cells
• Evolution
• Human Anatomy
• Pathogens
• Reproduction
• Genetics
• Plants
• Astronomy Space
• Forces

• Atoms Elements
• Bonding
• Phases of Matter
• Energy
• Reactions
• Equilibrium
• Atmospheric Science
• Electricity Magnetism
• Gravity
• Momentum
• Waves
• Mechanics

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According to Websters

• 1 the state of knowing knowledge as
  distinguished from ignorance or
  misunderstanding2 a a department of
  systematized knowledge as an object of study ltthe
  science of theologygt b something (as a sport or
  technique) that may be studied or learned like
  systematized knowledge lthave it down to a
  sciencegt3 a knowledge or a system of knowledge
  covering general truths or the operation of
  general laws especially as obtained and tested
  through scientific method b such knowledge or
  such a system of knowledge concerned with the
  physical world and its phenomena NATURAL
  SCIENCE4 a system or method reconciling
  practical ends with scientific laws ltculinary
  sciencegt

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Natural Science

• any of the sciences (as physics, chemistry, or
  biology) that deal with matter, energy, and their
  interrelations and transformations or with
  objectively measurable phenomena

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Is this classification best?

• Life processes and living things
• Materials and their properties
• Physical Processes
• Others...

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Science Education

• Make a list of reasons why a pupil in Secondary
  School should be required to study science as a
  compulsory subject.
• Classify these reasons as
• Economic, Societal, Utilitarian, Aesthetic

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Situational Analysis 1

• Matthieu Leblanc is from Coaticook, and is in
  Level 4. He is the son of a dairy farmer, who
  has spent his life working on the farm. Having
  not completed much of his homework, Matthieu
  fails a test in Algebra. You call him in to
  discuss his work, and he asks you Why do I need
  to know how to add and subtract polynomials?

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Situational Analysis 2

• Manon Fauchers mother is a PR officer for a
  local corporation. Manons preformance in
  Geometry has been poor, and her skills clearly
  lie in performance art. She loves drama, has
  started her own musical band and is distinctly
  expressive.
• During Parent-teacher night, Ms. Faucher wishes
  to know why Geometry should hold her daughter
  back from pursuing dramatic arts at Laval.