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(TU WIEN Technische Universität Wien, 2011)Icelandic arithmetic books from the 18th century, printed and in manuscripts, adhered to the European structure of practical arithmetic textbooks, formed in the late Middle Ages: The number concept, numeration, the four operations in whole numbers and ... -
(2012)Living conditions in Iceland worsened in the period 1600–1800, and the greatest lava flow on earth in historical times in 1783–84 was accompanied with severe earthquakes and famine. Concurrently, the Enlightenment movement, channelled from Germany ...
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(2022-04-01)It is important to examine changes in driving performance and driver behavior with increasing age to improve road safety. The main purpose of this study was to explore if there were any differences in a group of young drivers (n = 36, Mage = 32) and a ...
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(Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, 2021)The Old Norse treatise Algorismus is a prose translation of the Latin hexameter poem Carmen de Algorismo, written in France in the early thirteenth century by Alexander de Villa Dei (ca. 1170–1240), who was a canon at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Avranches. ...
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(2013)In this paper two nineteenth century Icelandic arithmetic textbooks are investigated, both written according to the late medieval tradition of libri di abbaco, practical textbooks. The authors were influenced by the German Protestant tradition that ...
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(2013)This paper identifies similarities and eventual differences in the development of public mathematics education in the nineteenth century in three Northern-European countries: Estonia, Iceland and Norway. Special attention is paid to how these developments ...
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(Háskóli Íslands - Menntavísindasvið, 2009)Björn Gunnlaugsson (1788–1876) was a remarkable product of the Enlightenment movement in Iceland. He was never admitted to a school, but learnt mathematics by himself and from his tenant-farmer father before he entered the University of Copenhagen, ...
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(2022-09-27)Fussy-eating children often display problematic behaviors around mealtimes, such as irritation, opposition, or may even throw tantrums. This may lead to reduced food variety and poor nutritional profiles, which may increase parents’ worries about their ...
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(2023-04-05)This study explores how children construct their belonging in culturally diverse early childhood settings in Finland and Iceland. Belonging is understood as a holistic phenomenon that is constructed through various relations. The study is a multiple-case ...
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(2021)The aim of this study is to examine the complexities of the doctoral candidate–supervisor relationship within the doctoral programme at the University of Iceland through the voices of the doctoral candidates. Numerous studies suggest that doctoral ...
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(Tapir Academic Press, 2007)The importance of understanding concepts and procedures is emphasized in most mathematics textbooks written in Iceland, from the earliest writings in Icelandic up to present day. Simultaneously, assertions are found at regular intervals that the emphasis ...
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(2023-03-20)In this article the author name Malin Hultcrantz was incorrectly written as Malin Hulcrantz. The original article has been corrected.
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(University of Lower Silesia, 2011)The first section of the paper is on the current educational system in Iceland, as defined by its legal framework. Then we describe its course of development for a century, suggesting a theoretical framework which might be useful in chartering the ...
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(2010)In 930, at the close of the settlement period in Iceland, a week-based calendar was adopted. Observations of the solar cycle soon revealed errors of the calendar, which were cleverly amended. In the 12th century, the week-based misseri calendar was ...
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(2020-06-30)Globally, there is a demand for basing education policy decisions and practice on solid evidence. While the same applies in Iceland, some have claimed that there is a dearth of evidence-based publications targeted at education. This article considers ...
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(St Patricks College, 2011)This article describes a research on students’ views of what constitutes good mathematics teaching. A questionnaire with open ended questions was given to 106 students in six different mathematics classes, with five different teachers, in four different ...
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(2018)During the centuries, ordinary people in Iceland had few opportunities to study mathematics and few reasons to apply it. Instead, Icelanders have composed verses since medieval times, adhering to complex rules of rhymes and alliteration. They have ...
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(Publishing Office of the University of Rzeszow, 2011)‘Modern math’ was implemented in Icelandic schools at all levels in the 1960s. It was introduced to parents at meetings and by media articles, interviews and a television programme in 17 episodes. It is argued that the information was presented by ...
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(2021)The aim of the study was to focus on whether visual processing differs between distinct levels of reading competence in young adults, from a regular orthography. We compared the 10% highest scoring (HRC) and the 10% lowest scoring groups (LRC) of reading ...
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