{"id":127,"date":"2019-04-16T02:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T02:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/?page_id=127"},"modified":"2019-04-16T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:37:55","slug":"stage-3-middle-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/history-stories-and-evolution\/stage-3-middle-school-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Middle School Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the program developed to cover one year educational program activities (for weekly one hour workshops) it became optional curriculum for fifth graders. Mathematical concepts in the context of a friendly and enjoyable framework could have been better comprehended. Especially geometric skills like <em>domain decomposition<\/em> or <em>addition of angles<\/em> were acquired more efficiently compared to standard teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants spatial skills improved and they obtained better results in standard mathematical tests next year. Here you have<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Results 2015<\/strong><br>  1. Overall: 17% increase &#8211; spatial intelligence <br>  2. Qualitative results: improved creativity, reasoning. <br>  3. Follow-up. The average math score was higher by 20%, next year <br>  4. Low performance improvement: The ratio of lower performing students for the target group is half compared to the control <br><br><strong>Quantitative Results 2016. <\/strong>Science Festival Project allowed the students to present their project to teachers, parents and visitors, with confidence, precise language and enthusiasm <br><br>These results were reported at ICME 13, 2016, Hamburg, Germany:<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ICME13_poster.pdf\">ICME13_poster<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ICME13_poster.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The full proceedings report is available for free from the congress homepage: <a href=\"http:\/\/icme13.org\/post_congress_materials\">http:\/\/icme13.org\/post_congress_materials<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xcolony.eu\/img\/icme4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the program developed to cover one year educational program activities (for weekly one hour workshops) it became optional curriculum for fifth graders. Mathematical concepts in the context of a friendly and enjoyable framework could have been better comprehended. Especially geometric skills like domain decomposition or addition of angles were acquired more efficiently compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":123,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions\/167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/x-colony.com\/xcolony\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}