HAIFA (Press Release)–Prof. Michal Yerushalmy has been awarded the International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE) award (known as “the Eddies”) for excellence in design of educational products and materials in science or mathematics.
The award and $10,000 prize was given to Prof. Yerushalmy for Visual Math, a curriculum developed through a rigorous process to produce innovative materials with great demonstrated impact on students, teachers, and educational designers around the world.
Michal Yerushalmy heads the University of Haifa’s Institute for Research of Alternatives in Education which aspires to become the premier research and design incubator for technological innovation in education, bringing together developers and researchers from academia and industry, in Israel and abroad, with research fellows in the learning sciences.
Visual Math is a function-based mathematics program for 7th through 12th grade (http://www.cet.ac.il/math-international/junior.htm and http://www.cet.ac.il/math-international/high.htm). It systematically builds student understanding of secondary school mathematics from a functions perspective through rich tasks, involving computer environments (software and digital interactive books) integrated into a coherent, multi-year curriculum in which students develop strong skills based on inquiry into the big ideas of algebra, calculus and geometry.
A contemporary continuation of Visual Math is Math4Mobile. This project seeks to convert ubiquitous mobile technology into an important resource for inquiry teaching and learning mathematics.
Visual Math digital materials are open for use in various formats and languages and teachers, educational designers, and researchers from around the world are documenting the impact of the Visual Math materials on their work.
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