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Concept Cartoons tasks as a complement to mathematical textbooks
ČECH, Adam
This work deals with tasks in the Concept Cartoons format. The work presents the use of tasks during the teaching of mathematics at the second stage of primary school. Qualitative research led to the identification of problematic topics in the mathematics curriculum. The collected data were used to create new tasks in the Concept Cartoons format, which are the content of this work. The new tasks were tested in practice. The work can serve as a topic for teachers to enrich teaching.
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Development of a Desktop Application for Practising Mathematics for Operation System Windows
KOLÁŘOVÁ, Zdeňka
This bachelor thesis explores the process of creation and development of a desktop application for the operating system Windows that is focused on practising Mathematics. Programming language C# and the environment Visual Studio were chosen for this project. The application offers two modes - "Student" and "Teacher". The "Student" mode allows the user to practise solving mathematical problems. The application tracks the success history of the user, allowing them to retry solving previously failed problems as well as new ones of the same type. All problems can be revisited later. The "Teacher" mode puts emphasis on being highly customisable to suit the user's teaching style, which is provided by the integrated course editor, that supports various types of math problems. Selective questions, filling in the blanks and open questions where only the result is checked can all be created.
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Through mathematics to technique
REJTHAR, Jakub
The word "technique" can be understood as the improvement of human skills that are based on the application of natural sciences. It has been gradually evolving as proportionately as all humanity has. It has brought a number of experts in all categories who raised their followers and there was no shortage of these individuals. Over time, it turned out that number of these "teachers"started to decline and hardly there were a few successors. This bachelor thesis deals with technical examples in Mathematics and their practical use. The main goal is to develop a number of interesting examples in the form of worksheets. We will show that Mathematics already has been used everywhere in elementary school. The materials can help all teachers of Mathematics either as a scheme or for their use in the class. Several necessary tools are included in this thesis for some tasks. The last part is supplemented by practical examples of elaborated sheets from first-year high school students.
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Ciphers in mathematics teaching at elementary school.
BOUČKOVÁ, Kateřina
The diploma thesis "Ciphers in mathematics education at primary school" acquaints readers with basic concepts related to encryption, as well as with the history of ciphers from the beginning to the present, their classification, connection to the framework educational program for primary school and didactic game. It also deals with introducing simple ciphers to children and their encryption and decryption. The work is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part presents ciphers and their use, basic concepts, types of ciphers, history of ciphers, cryptographic games and didactic game. The practical part includes worksheets and didactic games that contain simple ciphers. Each worksheet contains instructions for use, solutions and the ciphers themselves. Some of the worksheets were tested by children and therefor there is also an evaluation of how the children performed - with the wrong and also correct solutions.
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Humor at school: teaching with joke
Kubátová, Michaela ; Klusák, Miroslav (advisor) ; Štech, Stanislav (referee) ; Švaříček, Roman (referee)
This dissertation deals with the issue of humour in the school environment. It aims to obtain data on humour used in the teaching of mathematics by teachers of Czech primary and secondary schools and on their basis to contribute to the theory of using humour to support the learning of pupils and students, especially to the issue of so-called humour techniques. Practical use for teaching professionals is expected output of this dissertation. The dissertation is structured as empirical research primarily built on qualitative methodology. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with teachers and analyzed according to the method of the so-called grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1999). The amount of the data also enabled their quantitative analysis, whereas the dependence of the researched phenomena on predefined parameters was identified. The theoretical basis of the dissertation is founded upon the analysis of overview texts on humour in school environment and upon research studies dealing with the influence of humour on learning. The output of the literature search is the design of a new model of the forms of the use of humour in teaching and the definition of circumstances that may hinder or contribute to the positive impact of humour on learning. The result of the empirical...
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Measuring value-added in education
Potužníková, Eva ; Greger, David (advisor) ; Veselý, Arnošt (referee) ; Ježek, Stanislav (referee)
Value-added measurement is a general term for a variety of approaches that assess school effectiveness based on their students' learning progress. In the context of growing interest in monitoring educational achievement, value-added is gaining importance as a fairer measure of school contribution to student learning. The aim of this work is to give an overview of main approaches to value-added measurement and to prove their applicability in the Czech education system. Value-added is measured by statistical models that rely on the method of linear regression but vary in how they model the school effects and which independent variables they use. Value-added scores estimated by nine different models are compared in the empirical part of this work. The study uses data of 3016 students from 141 basic schools assessed in grades 4 and 6 in the Czech Longitudinal Study in Education (CloSE). Value-added estimates differ from average raw test scores and from effectivity estimates obtained from models that account for the students' socio-demographic characteristics but not for their prior test achievement. School effects obtained from different value-added models are highly correlated, but simple regression models classify more schools into groups with above-average or below-average value-added. Simple...
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Transfer between mathematics and music in teaching mathematics
Kovačová, Petra ; Zamboj, Michal (advisor) ; Beran, Filip (referee)
Transfer between Mathematics and Music in Teaching Mathematics ABSTRACT The thesis targets the concept of learning transfer between mathematics and music and its usage in teaching mathematics in primary school. The aim of this thesis is to create interdisciplinary tasks for initiation of the learning transfer between mathematics and music, through an educational experiment identify whether the transfer occurs while solving them and determine its conditions. Another aim is to define the role of a teacher in this process. It focuses on the transfer between the area of grids, symmetry and melodies created by two tones. Moreover, it aims at fractions and creating tones by shortening a string. Educational areas Mathematics and its application and Music are described according to the Framework Education Programme for Elementary Education alongside with the possibilities of their connecting through interdisciplinary relations, cross-sectional and integrated learning. The concept of learning transfer and its kinds is elaborated in the final chapter of the theoretical part. Mathematical and musical terms used in tasks of the second part of the thesis are explained there too. Within the practical part there were tasks for initiating and testing transfer created. They were used in the educational experiment in the 9th...
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Media Image of Compulsory High School Diploma in Mathematics in Chosen Media
Kalášková, Jana ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Odstrčilová, Klára (referee)
The compulsory mathematics matriculation is a long-standing topic of discussion among the professional and lay population. The amendment to the Education Act, mandating compulsory mathematics graduation for all secondary school students, was first introduced by former Education Minister Marcel Chládek. For the first time, the matriculation exam was to be compulsory for students taking their matriculation exam in the 2020/2021 school year. Now students can choose between a foreign language and mathematics. The topic of this thesis is the issue of the compulsory mathematics matriculation exam and its media portrayal, in my case in the news coverage of Nova television and Czech Television, where I will examine the coverage of the topic in the main evening news of both media. The aim of my thesis is to find out how the examined media portrayed the issue in the period from June 2013 to June 2020, how many reports were devoted to the topic, how long they were, which people are associated with the topic and which parties expressed their views on the topic.
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Possibilities of interactive whiteboard in education
Kalousová, Petra ; Lustig, František (advisor) ; Procházka, Josef (referee)
TITLE: Possibilities of interactive whiteboard in education ABSTRAKT: The dissertation is focused on the usage of didactic technology especially interactive whiteboards in education of mathematics in elementary and secondary schools. The theoretical part deals with particular types of whiteboards and software of different companies. It introduces the basics and possibilities in use of interactive whiteboard in education of mathematics. The dissertation also contains processed and practice-tested lessons created by ACTIV Studio software for the chosen subject of the mathematics curriculum - Sets. This effort should be a good inspiration for all pedagogues in their initial work with interactive whiteboards. KEY WORDS: Information and Communication Technologies, interactive whiteboards, ACTIV Studio, Mathematics, advanced method of education
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