Educational Concepts and Mathematics Terms

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Constructivism

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A theory of learning that asserts that humans construct their own knowledge.

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Content Standards

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These define what mathematics a student should be able to understand and do at a specified grade level.

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New Math

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A mathematics curriculum that emphasized understanding of mathematical concepts through inquiry and discovery.

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Number Base

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Tells you how many digits you have. Base ten uses the digits 0-9. Computers often use base two (0,1) which is also called a binary system.

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Prior Knowledge

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Ideas or concepts acquired before in a previous unit, lesson, grade-level, course, or even in daily life.

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Process Standards

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These describe ways in which the students are expected to engage in the content. These may be ways they acquire knowledge or ways they interact with and use their knowledge.

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Pythagorean Theorem

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States that the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse of the right triangle.

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Quantitative Data

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Any set of information that can be numerically recognized and analyzed.

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Symbolic Number System

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An abstract system in which symbols represent quantities.

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Behaviorism

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A theory of learning that asserts that learning occurs when bonds are created between stimuli (events in the environment) and responses (reactions to the stimuli).