This conference continues with its focus on astronomy education to the conference "Astronomical Education at Elementary and Secondary Schools in the 21st Century" held in June 2013 in Ruzomberok and conferences dealing with the teaching of astronomy held since the 1960...

We aimed to present the results of the questionnaire survey carried out among 229 physics teachers of the grammar schools in the Czech Republic. The objective of the research was to analyse the state-of-the-art of the physics laboratories in the upper grade of Czech�...

Project teaching passes for being an effective teaching method and it had come to the idea of implementation of the preparation and realization of the project days for primary and secondary school pupils at our department in the beginning of 2009. The project days ...

Technical education is one of the vital educational areas for future. The future of all of us lies right in young generation, where children need to be guided from a young age to awake their interest in technology and technically oriented fields. This educational area is&...

One of the main challenges in adapting existing curricula to the European Higher Education Area is to reduce the number of credits allocated to each subject. This decline is counterbalanced by the fact that former credits were calculated solely taking into account the personal ...

The presented paper presents the procedures for teaching statistics and probability at university. Due to our experience with Mathematica, we have used its outstanding features in teaching courses in probability theory and statistics. The chosen program and the environment that can be c...

Game-based learning is a relatively important part of the learning process. The game itself is a strong motivational factor for the children. They are not only informed about new facts, learns new skills and gets him new experiences, but the experience of the game also wo...

We are focused on the part where the student can assess their own progress in learning – selfevaluation. According to the fact that learning is not only the time spent at school but also the preparation at home is necessary, the student needs to realize what progress...

Currently, we have faced problems in the area of developing fine motor skills for pre-school and school children. As there has been a huge expansion of touch electronics, such as tablets in households as well as at schools, the necessity to use more fingers of a hand...

There is currently a discussion in the Czech Republic on improving the education system at primary and secondary schools. More generally, this is a planned revision of national curricula. Increasing competences of primary and secondary school teachers in so called digital literacy is&#x...

The term transformation is predominantly associated with a certain change of a whole. In its essence, transformation is a change within one part of a whole. It is not necessary for this entire part to change, the change can be just in one its property. The rest ...

Aim of described research is (was) to determine and suggest how to remove critical spots in lower-secondary physics curriculum. As critical spots we understand the problems with the physics concepts during learning and teaching. We used a multicriterial approach and analyzed basic curri...

Mathematics plays an important role in education. Primary school pupils work with natural numbers since year one. It it therefore essential for them to already have formed a correct conception of natural numbers. Pupils can understand a natural number as a process, a concept o...

A laboratory experiment was carried out with the same sample of first-year and subsequently second-year learners with the objective to discover strategies used by first-year learners during the enactive representation of natural numbers 4, 5, 6, 9 and 11 and by second-year learners ...

In order to prepare our students – future teachers of mathematics for potential problems, their pupils may encounter in math classes when working with binary operations, such as addition, multiplication, etc., subjects Elementary Algebra and Mathematics and Its Teaching Methodology are inclu...