2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Research and development of math educational materials dealing with environmental issues such as climate change

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20500795
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Science education
Research Institution	Fukui National College of Technology
Principal Investigator	TSUBOKAWA Takehiro Fukui National College of Technology, 一般科目教室(自然科学系), 教授 (70236941)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	数学教育 / 地球温暖化 / 環境教育 / エコシステム
Research Abstract	We did research on the mathematical modeling for the prediction of global warming reported by IPCC, the courses of environmental science in Australia and the textbooks on environment science in the USA. We found out that environmental issues could provide a good supply of math educational materials. However, it seems that the current use of environmental issues in mathematical education is insufficient. This study suggests that more environmental issues should be adopted as math educational materials. We have developed some mathematical models to describe global warming as well as eco-system.

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