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(TU WIEN Technische Universität Wien, 2011)Icelandic arithmetic books from the 18th century, printed and in manuscripts, adhered to the European structure of practical arithmetic textbooks, formed in the late Middle Ages: The number concept, numeration, the four operations in whole numbers and ... -
(2012)Living conditions in Iceland worsened in the period 1600–1800, and the greatest lava flow on earth in historical times in 1783–84 was accompanied with severe earthquakes and famine. Concurrently, the Enlightenment movement, channelled from Germany ...
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(Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, 2021)The Old Norse treatise Algorismus is a prose translation of the Latin hexameter poem Carmen de Algorismo, written in France in the early thirteenth century by Alexander de Villa Dei (ca. 1170–1240), who was a canon at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Avranches. ...
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(2013)In this paper two nineteenth century Icelandic arithmetic textbooks are investigated, both written according to the late medieval tradition of libri di abbaco, practical textbooks. The authors were influenced by the German Protestant tradition that ...
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(2013)This paper identifies similarities and eventual differences in the development of public mathematics education in the nineteenth century in three Northern-European countries: Estonia, Iceland and Norway. Special attention is paid to how these developments ...
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(Háskóli Íslands - Menntavísindasvið, 2009)Björn Gunnlaugsson (1788–1876) was a remarkable product of the Enlightenment movement in Iceland. He was never admitted to a school, but learnt mathematics by himself and from his tenant-farmer father before he entered the University of Copenhagen, ...
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(Tapir Academic Press, 2007)The importance of understanding concepts and procedures is emphasized in most mathematics textbooks written in Iceland, from the earliest writings in Icelandic up to present day. Simultaneously, assertions are found at regular intervals that the emphasis ...
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(St Patricks College, 2011)This article describes a research on students’ views of what constitutes good mathematics teaching. A questionnaire with open ended questions was given to 106 students in six different mathematics classes, with five different teachers, in four different ...
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(2018)During the centuries, ordinary people in Iceland had few opportunities to study mathematics and few reasons to apply it. Instead, Icelanders have composed verses since medieval times, adhering to complex rules of rhymes and alliteration. They have ...
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(Publishing Office of the University of Rzeszow, 2011)‘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 ...
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Matematikdidaktikken i Island i historisk sammenhæng – socioøkonomiske udfordringer og indflydelser. (2006)Island var overvejende et landbrugs- og landbosamfund op til det tyvende århundrede, og indbyggerne udviklede deres egen kultur inden for det danske kongerige. Matematik var i en lang periode en ubetydelig faktor i kulturen, men blev hovedsagelig ...
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(Uppsala University - Department of Education, 2015)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 ...
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(WTM Verlag für wissenschaftliche Texte und Medien, 2023)Four autonomous countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, established Nordic cooperation on modernising mathematics teaching in 1960, supported by the Nordic Council and OEEC, later OECD. Working teams wrote directives to teams writing experimental ...
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(IREM de Montpellier, 2016)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 ...
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(Oslo Metropolitan University, 2019)The treatise Algorismus is a complete prose translation of the Latin hexameter Carmen de Algorismo into the medieval Old Norse language. Carmen is dated in 1202, written by the French canon Alexander de Villa-Dei. The treatise explains for the first ...
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(2007)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 ...
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PISA 2012 – Performance in Mathematics and School Size : Performance in Mathematics and School Size (2015)A study of the results of PISA 2003 in Iceland showed that pupils in the two largest schools did was significantly better than in smaller schools. The score was particularly low in schools with 11–25 participants in PISA. A study of the PISA 2003 score ...
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(Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,, 2018)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 ...
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