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• Understanding of the symbiotic relationship between mathematics and science

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As philosopher Decartes once said mathematics is the root of all- by this he meant that maths was the most fundamental thing to life, and from this science grew.

Cross curricular links form the symbolic relationship between mathematics and science.

Background into cross curricular learning.

Harlow report 1961 encouraged teachers to experiment with the curriculum and the way they taught lessons.

1992 three wise men report thought that children should be put into groups according to ability in order to show the differentiation and progression that could be made throughout the subjects.

2002 cross curricular learning was successfully introduced into all primary schools according to the ofstead reprt QCA, 2002.

2014 National curriculum began to regonised that there were issues stating that there are no single methods for instructing.

Maths and Science together.

  • Whilst it is important to teach maths and science as a cross curricular subject it is also important that we do some direct teaching on the subjects as an individual. (Jim Rose, 2009…www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/pdfs/2009-IRPC-final)
  • in the early years the cross curricular approach according to the haydock report is easy to do as teachers do not have as much accountability for children to do well In things like national testing.

Symbolic Relationship.- Film mathematics is the Queen of Science.

Now more specifically focusing on the symbolic relationship between the two.

  • Mathematics known as the language of the universe.
  • Albert Einstein even wondered how does mathematics do so well in explaining the universe so well and how we see it.
  • Is maths the key to the cosmos.
  • David.H.Kolk fund for NOVA claims as humans we are continuously searching for patterns, eyons ago we were searching for these patterns in the stars looking at the consolations. Pattern is everyday, seasons coming and going to days and nights, as humans we ended up calling this time.
  • there are even asymmetrical patterns in the human body- which is both maths and science combined.
  • When scientists seize to understand the patterns in our world the often turn to mathematics.
  • They quantify their observations and use mathematics to help them. This has actually been known to work resulting in the discovery of the elliptical orbits of planets and electromagnetic waves in mobile devices.

As we can see this is some of the research I have looked over when completing this module.

Here is an hour long documentary on science and mathematics.

Knowledge of developing pupils’ skills in mathematics and science.

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 Developing higher order thinking skills using maps in mathematics.

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Development of skills in mathematics and science is vital for learning as it allows children to progress. Reading maps is one skills that can be developed through mathematics it also increases children’s higher order thinking skills and it allows children to problem solve and think critically. Higher order thinking skills allows children to understand something. Through map reading in particular this understanding can then be applied into real life situations and therefore it is something the children are more likely to remember how to do it.

When children are map reading  it embales them to look at shapes and symbols and apply this to measurements and distance. Map reading encorporates all these different skills. To begin a child may only understand how to so minimal things with the map like understand the symbols- however through progression there skills will further develop to allow the child to draw upon there previous knowledge and skills and the child is able to create there own map.

It is important that we teach children how to read maps effectivetly and this website has some good ideas on how to teach map reading to children https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/education-research/teaching-resources/map-reading-leaflets.html .

Many teachers however do not always chose to teach map reading skills to children as they are not sure how to incorporate mathematics into map reading. However, they do coincide as mathematics is found in maps when distances are being read. In addition to this there are also things like reading bus timetables or train timetables that can be brought into these sessions.

 

Therefore map reading skills produce higher order thinking skills and allow progression that helps children apply there learning to real life situations.