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Exploring studentsā learning difficulties in secondary mathematics classroom in Gilgit-Baltistan and teachersā effort to help students overcome these difficulties
This article sets out to describe and explain how four high school teachers, identified as improvement-oriented teachers (IOTs), in their day-to-day teaching, try to use pedagogical remedies to help their students overcome the difficulties that hinder in-depth learning in secondary mathematics classrooms. Providing reflective accounts from the IOTsā experiences and presenting illustrative examples from their classrooms, the study provides a broad picture of the context in which students learn mathematics. The study recognizes the factors that constrain students from gaining in-depth understanding into subject matter knowledge; it highlights the possibilities of fostering in-depth learning by establishing the primacy of the teacher in bridging the gap between studentsā perceptive faculty of mind and subject matter knowledge. It recognizes the influences the teacherās actions, pedagogical moves and decisions exert on studentsā in-depth learning of concepts. The study also underscores the vital importance of studentsā prior knowledge of basic mathematical concepts in in-depth learning of new concepts. Implication of the results of the study underscores the need for synergy of efforts on the part of teacher, school, and other key stakeholders, and curriculum in creating and promoting an environment conducive to studentsā in-depth learning in mathematics
Improving customer churn prediction by data augmentation using pictorial stimulus-choice data
The purpose of this paper is to determine the added value of pictorial stimulus-choice data in customer churn prediction. Using Random Forests and 5 times 2 fold cross-validation, this study analyzes how much pictorial stimulus choice data and survey data increase the AUC of a churn model over and above administrative, operational and complaints data. The finding is that pictorial-stimulus choice data significantly increases AUC of models with administrative and operational data. The practical implication of this finding is that companies should start considering mining pictorial data from social media sites (e.g. Pinterest), in order to augment their internal customer database. This study is original in that it is the first that assesses the added value of pictorial stimulus-choice data in predictive models. This is important because more and more social media websites are focusing on pictures
Explaining Trained Neural Networks with Semantic Web Technologies: First Steps
The ever increasing prevalence of publicly available structured data on the
World Wide Web enables new applications in a variety of domains. In this paper,
we provide a conceptual approach that leverages such data in order to explain
the input-output behavior of trained artificial neural networks. We apply
existing Semantic Web technologies in order to provide an experimental proof of
concept
Developing Learning Trajectory For Enhancing Studentsā Relational Thinking
Algebra is part of Mathematics learning in Indonesian curriculum. It takes one half of the teaching hours in senior high school, and one third in junior high school. However, the learning trajectory of Algebra needs to be improved because teachers teach computational thinking by applying paper-and-pencil strategy combining with the concepts-operations-example-drilling approach. Mathematics textbooks do not give enough guidance for teachers to conduct good activities in the classroom to promote algebraic thinking especially in the primary schools.
To reach Indonesian Mathematics teaching goals, teachers should develop learning trajectories based on pedagogical and theoretical backgrounds. Teachers need to have knowledge of studentās developmental progressions and understanding of mathematics concepts and studentsā thinking. Research shows that teachersā knowledge of studentās mathematical development is related to their studentsā achievement. In fostering a greater emphasis on algebraic thinking, teachers and textbooks need to work more closely together to develop a clearer learning trajectory. Having this algebraic thinking, students developed not only their own character of learning and thinking but also their attitude, attention and discipline.
Key Words: Learning Trajectory, Relational Thinkin
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