Simge’s Journal of Computer Assisted Mathematics & Science Education-SCED 470

 Statistics can be described as anything that we can do with data. It is a combination of learning from art and science. In statistics communication and its purposes are so important to be able to get data patterns and analyze them. By doing this we can have new opportunities to discover new things. Having good statistical reasoning skills will help everyone to generate data every day by knowing how they can generate data and how this data can be used. Since data can be found every time and every day, in education we need to start statistics in the kindergarten to college i.e. K-12. Also, statistical courses should be given according to the age of students and the level of students. Thanks, technology has a big impact that it enables us to reach data by using more cases and more variables with the help of real-world settings and sense-making.  - What role does statistics play in the standards? The Common Core concentrates on a clear set of math skills and concepts. Students ...

There is a total of 6x6 = 36 chances when two dices are rolled. The probability of each roll of dice coming is 1/36 and mathematicians call these "equiprobable events."  What needs to be calculated here is to make a probability estimation by looking at the situations who will win according to their dices. Person A rolls dice 1, 2, 3, 4, and person B rolls 5and 6. If the biggest of the numbers rolled belongs to whichever one, that person will win the banana.  For example, if the dices come up (3,4) by taking 3 belongs to person B and 4 belongs to person A; person A wins. On the other hand, if the dice come (4,5) by taking 4 belongs to person A and 5 belong to the on B; person B wins. From the chart, we can see that person A has a chance to win as 16/36 = 44% and person B has a chance to win as 20/36 = 56%. As can be understood from here, sometimes having a small number of things does not mean that they will have less power, and the balances can always change. Reference: https:...

 Who Was Ada Lovelace? The daughter of famed poet Lord Byron, Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace — better known as "Ada Lovelace" — showed her gift for mathematics at an early age. She translated an article on an invention by Charles Babbage and added her own comments. Because she introduced many computer concepts, Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer. She died on November 27, 1852. Early Years Ada Lovelace, born as Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815, was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron. Lord Byron's marriage to Lovelace's mother, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, was not a happy one. Lady Byron separated from her husband only weeks after their daughter was born.  Babbage and the Analytical Engine Around the age of 17, Ada met Charles Babbage, a mathematician, and inventor. The pair became friends, and the much older Babbage served as a mentor to Lovelace. Through Babbage, Lovelace began studying advanced...

 Function has an important impact on algebra. It can be defined as a relation between as set of inputs of permissible output with a property that each input is related to exactly one output.  There are 3 videos about GeoGebra activity about functions and ideas of students about this activity. In this activity there are 2 shapes. One of them has point a and q maps with 3 points a’ that they can be moved and other one is there is a fixed b which is mapped with b. Therefore, activity is related to which one is function and why, which one is not a function and why by dragging them. In video 1 there is a student who thinks that I can decide the map between the point a and the points a’ and the map between the fixed-point b and the point b’ according to choosing axis. If we choose x axis with point a and y axis with points a’ the map between the point a and the points a’ is not a function.  So, this student struggles with that issue.  In video 2 there are two students wh...

This week we have produced something using GeoGebra. In this way, we have chances for appliying basic properties of GeoGebra such as adding sliders, adding buttons, writing specific code and mathematical expression to work these sliders and buttons in an order. In this activity, Tom catches Jerry. It can be a good activity for problems.  The link for my specific work is below.   Link:  https://www.geogebra.org/classic/tmvana8n Some part of my activity:

Today I want to say important things about storytelling.  Storytelling, which is the art of telling from memory rather than reading stories, is one of the oldest of all art forms dating back to prehistoric times. Storytelling includes two elements which are selection and presentation. It is very important to choose a storytelling and presentation suitable for the lecture and the subject being taught that day.  Storytelling also supports language learning by enriching students' vocabulary and acquiring new language structures. Since mathematics is a language, it will be easier for students to understand the topics if we choose the way of storytelling while covering mathematics topics. Moreover, storytelling provides a motivating environment for many educational areas such as language learning, while reducing students' anxiety. This method that most teachers choose as a resource for teaching has many benefits. These benefits can be listed as; • To allow children to explore the...

 Algebra is a fundamental topic in mathematics and it can be taught by using some applications like GeoGebra.  Let’s look at GeoGebra application and some questions and try to understand how we can construct algebraically thinking.  Q6. Examining patterns and describing them in words occurs early in children’s school experiences, often as early as Pre-K. How can teachers build on patterning activities to foster students’ algebraic thinking? As a math teacher candidate, I would ask my students to create a letter and a fruit shape to choose. Therefore, I put these letters in one of the two baskets, and the fruits in the other, to make them establish algebraic relationships between them by adding or subtracting letters or fruits. Hence, we can construct and represent sequences in numerical way and geometrical way.  Open a new GeoGebra document with a Spreadsheet view:  Q8. Describe in your own words what each of the steps used to create the sequence and cumulative ...