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Integrating science, mathematics, and environmental education: Resources and guidelines

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Journal of Science Teacher Education

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The integration of mathematics, science, and environmental education permits the students to gain from all three areas simultaneously. Science encompasses the art of questioning, investigating, hypothesizing, and discovering. Mathematics is the language that provides clarity, objectivity, and understanding. Many of the major contemporary issues involve societal issues stemming from advancements in science (Wiebe, Ecklund, & Hillen, 1986). Problem solving, creative mathematics and science thinking, core knowledge, decision making, and environmental training are all available in one time period in a properly conceived and directed activity. Teachers, too, are more interested when using methods and concepts more familiar to them. By increasing awareness and making a more effective use of classroom time we may get closer to producing the informed citizen needed for today’s world.

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Lorson, M.V., Heimlich, J.E. & Wagner, S. Integrating science, mathematics, and environmental education: Resources and guidelines. J Sci Teacher Educ 4, 92–96 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02614557

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