An Operations Research-Based Teaching Unit for Grade 10: The ROAR Experience, Part I
INFORMS Transactions on Education
; 23(2):104-120, 2023.
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| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-20234319
ABSTRACT
We introduce "Ricerca Operativa Applicazioni Reali" (ROAR;in English, "Real Applications of Operations Research"), a three-year project for higher secondary schools. Its main aim is to improve students' interest, motivation, and skills related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics disciplines by integrating mathematics and computer science through operations research. ROAR offers examples and problems closely connected with students' everyday life or with the industrial reality, balancing mathematical modeling and algorithmics. The project is composed of three teaching units, addressed to grades 10, 11, and 12. The implementation of the first teaching unit took place in Spring 2021 at the scientific high school IIS Antonietti in Iseo (Brescia, Italy). In particular, in this paper, we provide a full description of this first teaching unit in terms of objectives, prerequisites, topics and methods, organization of the lectures, and digital technologies used. Moreover, we analyze the feedback received from students and teachers involved in the experimentation, and we discuss advantages and disadvantages related to distance learning that we had to adopt because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 10; Authentic Learning; Cooperative Learning; Operations Research; Problem Solving; Foreign Countries; STEM Education; Algorithms; Distance Education; Computer Science; High School Students; Italy; Mathematical Models
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INFORMS Transactions on Education
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2023
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