Cross-curricular links between informatics and mathematics in contemporary Czech school reality

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2017.1136" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2017.1136</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2017.1136" target="_blank" >10.21125/iceri.2017.1136</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cross-curricular links between informatics and mathematics in contemporary Czech school reality

Original language description

Nowadays, on the basis of the Digital Education Strategy in the Czech Republic until 2020 [1], an innovative process of curriculum for the teaching of informatics and/or computer science-oriented subjects is under way [2], [3], [4]. Today information and communication technology (ICT) has a significant impact on all fields of human activity, so the basic requirement for teaching informatics or informatics-oriented disciplines should also be its implementation in the widest range of school subjects. In our paper, we summarize selected partial results of a questionnaire survey among 123 computer science teachers at primary and secondary schools aimed at determining the rate of use of interdisciplinary relationships, primarily in computer science and mathematics, and identifying topics that teachers classify or consider appropriate for inclusion in curricula. Using descriptive statistics tools, we attempted to describe the current state of the subject. There were 51% of researched teachers, who stated that they also teach mathematics or work in primary schools. Surprisingly, less than half of them (mathematics teachers) – only 44%perceive it as necessary to change the curriculum of mathematics due to the computer science curriculum and its inovations. MS Excel is the most suitable program (76% mathematics teachers) for the application of computer science topics in mathematics. Overall, 80% of respondents mentioned it. Among the appropriate topics using in MS Excel teachers included e.g. linear functions and calculating functional values, plotting of function graphs (61% of all respondents); similarly (61% of all respondents) mentioned solutions of linear function systems, finding the intersections of two graphs. The use of MS Excel in the solution of logical problems is considered appropriate by 63% of respondents. We believe that the connection and use of computer science topics in mathematics subject and vice versa should be completely natural. Therefore, the ongoing implementation of innovative interventions in the current curriculum of informatics should adequately integrated it.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

ICERI2017 Proceedings

ISBN

978-84-697-6957-7

ISSN

2340-1095

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

4286-4289

Publisher name

International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED)

Place of publication

Madrid

Event location

Sevilla, Spain

Event date

Nov 15, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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