Management Mathematics for european schools

Beyond the topics, the Mathematics folklore says that pupils think that this field is a boring, non-practical mental exercise, far apart from daily life. This thought is influencing the entire education system and even society, motivating important lack of mathematical skills among students. This work presents experiences, developed within the MaMaEuSch project oriented to stimulate and enforce the study of Mathematics among the students in the High-School education level

Well-balanced Finite Volume schemes: some stability and convergence results

We report a stability and convergence analysis for some simplified well-balanced Finite Volume solvers of Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws. These are specific solvers, recently introduced, that balance all steady solutions up to second order of accuracy by means of an additional numerical source term. We prove the stability and convergence of some of these solvers for scalar hyperbolic equations under reasonable conditions on the additional term

Numerical solution of a Laplace equation with data in L1

In this work, we address the numerical solution of the Laplace equation with data in L1 by IP1 finite element schemes. Even if this is a simple problem, its analysis is difficult and requires new tools because finite element schemes are based on variational formulations which do not lend themselves to estimates in the L1 norm. The approach for analyzing this problem consists in applying some of the techniques that are used by Murat (cf. [5]) and Boccardo & Gallouet (cf. [2]) in constructing the renormalized solution of the problem. The key ingredient is the assumption that all the angles of the grid are acute; then the matrix of the system is an M matrix. Interestingly, with this sole assumption, we prove that uh tends to u in mesure in Ω

Programa de formación de profesores noveles

En la memoria que se redacta a continuación se recoge la experiencia de un grupo de profesores noveles inscritos en un programa de formación dirigido por un profesor de reconocida experiencia en labores docentes. Se expondrán los objetivos planteados y los métodos empleados para su realización. Tras un análisis de resultados se concluye que existen condicionantes internos y externos que dificultan la aplicación de ciertas técnicas de enseñanza. El escrito finaliza con alguna propuesta de mejora del programa de formación de cara a próximas ediciones del mismo.The work done by a number of unexperienced lecturers under the guidance of a much more experienced professor is shown in this report. Firstly, both objectives and tasks to accomplish them are presented. Afterwards, an analysis of the results reveals that a number of internal and internal facts makes it difficult to apply sorne learning techniques. At the end of the report there are some ideas to improve the course in the future