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Mathematics (Education) in the Information AgeGraphical Literacy, Graphicacy, and STEM Subjects

Mathematics (Education) in the Information Age: Graphical Literacy, Graphicacy, and STEM Subjects [Ever since Descartes invented analytic geometry, graphs have become integral to mathematics and science. Graphic literacy is even more important today, as students are exposed continuously to graphic artifacts; as a result, discerning between all kinds of graphs and scientific ones is a critical skill, given that the latter is intrinsic to STEM subjects. Therefore, equipping them with graphical literacy is a first step in providing students with knowledge methods to leverage, demonstrate, and apply their creative endeavours and to approach and solve hard problems. Within the (STEM) realm, students should, in a phrase, be visualizing certain facts or phenomena in terms of how they are represented graphically. While there are opportunities, even if few, throughout STEM classrooms to develop graphical literacy, typically, it is assumed to emerge spontaneously. Nevertheless, this is not necessarily the case. By practising and reinforcing graphical literacy concretely, students are given the opportunities required to extract structural and unstructured information correctly and meaningfully from graphical representations.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Mathematics (Education) in the Information AgeGraphical Literacy, Graphicacy, and STEM Subjects

Part of the Mathematics in Mind Book Series
Editors: Costa, Stacy A.; Danesi, Marcel; Martinovic, Dragana
Costa, Stacy A.
Mathematics (Education) in the Information Age — Dec 11, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-59176-2
Pages
65 –72
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_5
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[Ever since Descartes invented analytic geometry, graphs have become integral to mathematics and science. Graphic literacy is even more important today, as students are exposed continuously to graphic artifacts; as a result, discerning between all kinds of graphs and scientific ones is a critical skill, given that the latter is intrinsic to STEM subjects. Therefore, equipping them with graphical literacy is a first step in providing students with knowledge methods to leverage, demonstrate, and apply their creative endeavours and to approach and solve hard problems. Within the (STEM) realm, students should, in a phrase, be visualizing certain facts or phenomena in terms of how they are represented graphically. While there are opportunities, even if few, throughout STEM classrooms to develop graphical literacy, typically, it is assumed to emerge spontaneously. Nevertheless, this is not necessarily the case. By practising and reinforcing graphical literacy concretely, students are given the opportunities required to extract structural and unstructured information correctly and meaningfully from graphical representations.]

Published: Dec 11, 2020

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