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CALENDAR OF FEMALE MATHEMATICIANS AS A
SECONDARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM DIARY
PREMA WORKSHOP, BARCELONA, JANUARY 2007
Why?
How?
2004
2005
2006
They(women) also exist
coeducation in the tutorial classes
Didactic unit
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Why?
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They (women) also exist
One of the aims we wanted to achieve with the calendars
was to show the existence of these women and to encourage the students of Secondary Compulsory Education (O-level) and Bachillerato (A-level students) to know those women
and their work
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How?
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2004
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Sophie Germain
Sophie Kovalevskaya
Grace Chisolm Young
Emmy Noether
Florence Nightingale
María Goeppert Mayer
Gaetana Agnesi
Caroline Herschel
Emile du Breteuil
Teano
Mary Somerville
Ada Byron
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Rosa Smith Eigenmann
Valentina Tereshkova
Eulalia Pérez Sedeño
Diane Fossey
Chien-Shiung Wu
Emma Castelnuovo
Mary Anning
Helen Sawyer Hogg
Hildegard von Birgen
Lisa Meitner
Susan Bell Burner
Marie Curie
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Marie Anne Pierrette
Rozsa Péter
Heddu´Anna
Lucy Cartwright
Lady Mary Wortley
Elena Piscopia
Rosalind Franklin
Mileva Maric
Irene Joliot-Curie
Rosalyn Sussman
Agnodice
Julia Bowman
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Women Mathematicians in 2005, 2006
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Coeducation in tutorial classes
In Andalucía, the students of Secondary Education spend an hour with their tutor in which one of the topics they have to work about is Coeducation. The calendars have been a useful tool for this purpose and many Secondary Schools in our Community have used them successfully.
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DIDACTIC UNIT sample
Subject: Statistics 3º de E.S.O.
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In this unit the students start by distinguishing the different types of variables and later they learn to arrange them in tables of frequencies
and study the different statistical graphs. Now, it is the moment to tell them about Florence
Nightingale.
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Florence Nightingale: Italia 1820 - Inglaterra 1910
Very well-known as a nurse, few persons know about either her statistical facet, or that she was the one that designed the graph of sectors. She supported the setting up of the Applied Statistics College. Her graphs and studies made the British Government realize that the lack of cares and hygiene in campaign hospitals was the main reason for the death of soldiers in the Crimea War.
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Let’s see Nightingale's graph, which represents the mortality during the war of Crimea.
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Every sector has a colored area proportional to the information
represented. The part colored in greenish blue, represents the deaths that could
have been avoided or mitigated, such as those deaths caused by cholera or typhus. The yellow ones show the deaths caused
by wounds of war. The central parts show
the deaths caused by any other reasons.
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CONCLUSIONThe most important achievement accomplished has been the evolution in the students’ perception of the calendars in the course of the years.The Calendars started as an object the teacher pinned-up on the classroom wall, and, little by little, the calendars have become a positive element appreciated by students:
• Groups that don’t have it, demand it.• It is used as a decorative element in the contest “La clase
más limpia” (The tidiest classroom), whereas other calendars are thrown away ours remains in the classroom.
• The students ask their teachers questions about the “woman of the month”.
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Finally, I would like to stress the fact that these women’s biographies are in display all the days of the whole school year, that, it is not compulsory to study them. This is why students tend to assimilate the existence of women in all the fields of Science as something natural. This natural way in which the calendars are shown, I think, is the first step to create a co-educative atmosphere in the Maths classes and, maybe, to create mathematics vocations among the girls.
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Bibliography:
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Materials supplied by the Center of Documentation Thales
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