Implementing ‘modern math’ in Iceland – : Informing parents and the public
‘Modern math’ was implemented in Icelandic schools at all levels in the 1960s. It was introduced to parents at meetings and by media articles, interviews and a television programme in 17 episodes. It is argued that the information was presented by unrealistic convictions of the quality of the ‘moder...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/4892 2024-06-02T08:09:05+00:00 Implementing ‘modern math’ in Iceland – : Informing parents and the public Bjarnadóttir, Kristín Pytlak, Marta Rowland, Tim Swoboda, Ewa Education 2011 10 76897 34013361 1670–1679 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4892 en eng Publishing Office of the University of Rzeszow Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 9th–13th February, 2011 Rzeszów, Poland; () Bjarnadóttir , K 2011 , Implementing ‘modern math’ in Iceland – : Informing parents and the public . in M Pytlak , T Rowland & E Swoboda (eds) , Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 9th–13th February, 2011 Rzeszów, Poland . Publishing Office of the University of Rzeszow , Rzeszów , pp. 1670–1679 . 221817353 07cf2d2c-e59c-4320-8a22-e3cf0b81f4d6 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4892 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Mathematics (all) /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontobookanthology/chapter 2011 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/4892 2024-05-06T02:20:07Z ‘Modern math’ was implemented in Icelandic schools at all levels in the 1960s. It was introduced to parents at meetings and by media articles, interviews and a television programme in 17 episodes. It is argued that the information was presented by unrealistic convictions of the quality of the ‘modern math’ programme, that the timing of the presentations was not optimal, and that more information was needed when the programme had reached the majority of pupils at the primary level. Peer reviewed Book Part Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) |
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‘Modern math’ was implemented in Icelandic schools at all levels in the 1960s. It was introduced to parents at meetings and by media articles, interviews and a television programme in 17 episodes. It is argued that the information was presented by unrealistic convictions of the quality of the ‘modern math’ programme, that the timing of the presentations was not optimal, and that more information was needed when the programme had reached the majority of pupils at the primary level. Peer reviewed |
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Implementing ‘modern math’ in Iceland – : Informing parents and the public |
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Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 9th–13th February, 2011 Rzeszów, Poland; () Bjarnadóttir , K 2011 , Implementing ‘modern math’ in Iceland – : Informing parents and the public . in M Pytlak , T Rowland & E Swoboda (eds) , Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 9th–13th February, 2011 Rzeszów, Poland . Publishing Office of the University of Rzeszow , Rzeszów , pp. 1670–1679 . 221817353 07cf2d2c-e59c-4320-8a22-e3cf0b81f4d6 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4892 |
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