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Early European accounting theory: Sir William Petty's contributions to accounting
Sy, Aida; Tinker, Tony - In: International Journal of Critical Accounting 6 (2014) 3, pp. 211-232
Accounting and auditing are frequently cited as culprits in the current economic crisis. Traditional practices (including academic rationales) are coming under increased scrutiny. This paper proposes a way of beginning to reinvigorate the subject by returning to the classics. Accounting, as a...
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¿La cuna marca las oportunidades y el rendimiento educativo? Una mirada al caso peruano.
Cueto, Santiago; Guerrero, Gabriela; León, Juan; … - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) - 2013
La investigación educativa muestra una estrecha correlación entre el rendimiento de los estudiantes peruanos y su nivel socioeconómico (NSE). En este documento se usan datos del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio para analizar si las oportunidades de aprendizaje (ODA) en matemática de...
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Neuroanthropological Understanding of Complex Cognition - Numerosity and Arithmetics
Mursic, Zarja - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 11 (2013) 4, pp. 427-435
factors, and they enabled humans to develop some aspects of complex cognition, such as mathematics. In the beginning of the … the field of mathematics - numerosity and arithmetic. Presentation of comparative animal studies, mainly made on primates …
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What do we know about primary teachers’ mathematical content knowledge in South Africa? An analysis of SACMEQ 2007
Venkat, Hamsa; Spaull, Nicholas - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2014
Primary school mathematics teachers should, at the most basic level, have mastery of the content knowledge that they … 2007 mathematics teacher test data which tested 401 grade 6 mathematics teachers from a nationally representative sample of … primary schools. Findings indicate that 79% of grade 6 mathematics teachers showed content knowledge levels below the grade 6 …
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score …
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In-service Teacher Professional Development (TPD) for Elementary Education
HBCSE, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education - eSocialSciences - 2014
from recent research and policy documents, with HBCSE's specific contributions to be in science and mathematics education. …
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Mathematics in economics. A perspective on necessity and sufficiency
PALAȘCĂ, Silvia - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics XVIII(2013) (2013) 9(586), pp. 127-144
surrounding the use of mathematics in economics. The role of language, tools and appropriateness of methods is discussed within … the discussion on the necessity of mathematics in economics and concentrates more on the degree in which this abstract …
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«Live Mathematics» and Mathematical Experiments
Shabat, Georgij - In: Educational Studies (2005) 3, pp. 156-165
The article considers the possibilities computers offer for a fundamental modernization of mathematics education in …
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What Does Subject Knowledge Give for Its Applying in New Context. The First Results from Studies TIMSS-2011 and PISA‑2012
Tyumeneva, Yulia; Valdman, Alena; Carnoy, Martin - In: Educational Studies (2014) 1, pp. 8-24
Yulia Tyumeneva - Candidate of Sciences, Senior Research Fellow at The International Laboratory for Education Policy Analysis at the HSE Graduate School of Education, HSE. E-mail: jtumeneva@hse.ruAlena Valdman - intern-researcher at The International Laboratory for Educational Policy Analysis at...
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Lapses in Learning Mathematics
Srivastava, Prem Shankar - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 3 (2014) 4, pp. 14-19
The present conceptual study deals about lapses in learning mathematics of students in schools are a problem of serious … academic significance. The present day situation of teaching-learning of mathematics is unsatisfactory as the results of … mathematics in different classes show. In our country, there are many school-going-students cut a sorry figure in learning …
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