Levers and mixtures: An integrated science and mathematics activity to solve problems

Alpaslan, Muhammet Mustafa

doi:10.1080/00368121.2017.1319321

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“…Furthermore, because in the activity students examine the relationships between variables and predict one variable based on the other, it has the potential to cultivate higher order thinking and computational skills. The activity we describe here is an integrated activity that science and mathematical concepts and skills are merged to support students' intellectual and cognitive development in both areas (Alpaslan, 2017;Işık & Alpaslan, 2018).…”

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We are very happy to present volume 11, issue 3 of the Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education. This year, we have already published two special issues, and this is our annual issue. It contains three papers and seven cases. Our number of full papers is smaller compared to what we normally publish but the two special issues have probably taken a few papers that might otherwise have found their way into the annual issue in more normal years. But this does not diminish the fact that we are very proud of this issue communicating essential studies and cases about PBL.The three papers in this issue are all empirical papers looking into the effects and attitudes of implementing PBL approaches and techniques. They cover three different disciplines: project management in economics, early childhood teacher education, and sex therapy in psychology education, across five different countries, as well as they work with both quantitative and qualitative methods. These varieties in application of PBL and in the scientific research about it, some might consider a weakness. Believing that a less rigor systematics and lack of a dominating theory might produce less solid and equivalent results, thereby weaken the creation of a stronger common understanding of the field. But we believe it is a strength. We do not strive for a PBL unity in terms of well-defined beliefs and exercises. But rather see PBL as an inspiration to develop, test, and support different forms of student centered and contextually anchored pedagogical theories and practices. For that reason, we welcome the varieties, and the encouragement they bring.Our seven cases, demonstrate the same palette of range and variety, as they come from all over the world -

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Integrating Mathematical Modelling into Problem Based Research: An Evaporation Activity

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Climate change put most species’ survival in danger because it substantially affects the climate in which the species live, the quality of the water they drink, as well as the temperature of the air or water. When climate change increases the temperature of the climate, excessive evaporation occurs in lands, lakes, seas, and oceans. Our purpose in this paper is to introduce a mathematical modelling activity embedded in Problem Based Learning (PBL) that allows students to investigate factors related to evaporation. Mathematical modelling is a popular technique of teaching mathematic concepts and skills and a method of inquiry about scientific phenomena that interests scientists. In the present activity, students use secondary data from trusted websites to test their hypotheses. Students are engaged in analyzing and interpreting data, generating and testing models, and discussing and presenting findings with their peers. The activity allows students the opportunity to examine the relationship between variables and predict one variable using the other. The activity has the potential to foster students’ computational and higher-order thinking skills.

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Levers and mixtures: An integrated science and mathematics activity to solve problems

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