‘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 ...

Landspróf miðskóla sem inntökupróf í menntaskóla og kennaraskóla og síðar fleiri skóla var haldið á árunum 1946–1976. Prófað var í átta námsgreinum þar sem íslenska vó tvöfalt. Landsprófið var upphaflega grundvallað á reglugerð nr. 3/1937 um námsefni ...

Ólafur Daníelsson was a towering figure in mathematics teaching in Iceland during the first three quarters of the 20th century. His position as textbook writer, the mathematics teacher of the first 167 primary teachers, and the teacher of the first 20 ...

Í greininni er fjallað um stærðfræðimenntun við Kennaraskóla Íslands, fræðslulögin 1946 og lög um menntun kennara frá 1947 og árangur nemenda á landsprófi í völdum skólum borinn saman við aðstæður og menntun kennara þeirra og menntun stærðfræðikennara ...

Athugun á niðurstöðum í stærðfræði í PISA-rannsókninni 2003 sýndi að árangur nemenda í tveimur stærstu skólunum var marktækt betri en í minni skólum. Sérstaklega var árangurinn slakur í skólum með 11–25 þátttakendur. Athugun á árangri í dönskum skólum ...

The New Math was implemented in Iceland with the intention to facilitate understanding in the midst of increased demands for education for all. The article contains an analysis and comparison of typical papers in a selective entrance examination into ...

Miklar breytingar urðu á kennslu í stærðfræði á Íslandi á áratugnum 1965–1975. Þær leiða hugann að því hvaða ástæður liggi að baki slíkum breytingum. M. Niss hefur skilgreint þrenns konar grundvallarástæður stærðfræðimenntunar: Félagslegar og efnahagslegar, ...

One and zero have always existed in arithmetic textbooks. In the modern sense they are numbers. It has not always been so. The Greek view was that a number is a multitude of units. This was often interpreted to mean that one (1) was not to be understood ...

The topics of ratios and proportions are investigated in the oldest Icelandic arithmetic textbook, Arithmetica Islandica of 1716, preserved in the manuscript Lbs. 1694 8vo. The conjecture that it is a translation of the printed Danish Arithmetica Danica ...

Regula de Tri, the Rule of Three, is in its simplest form a way of computing the fourth proportional in an equation of two ratios. It was an indispensable topic in Iceland from the first textbooks in arithmetic in the 18th century until the 1970s. ...