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Chapter Title
Modeling in Mathematics and History as Teaching and Learning Approaches to Pandemics
Book Title
Online Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Issues, Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies
Chapter Author(s)
Maria Papadopoulou, Panagiota Argyri, Zacharoula Smyrnaiou
Editors
Dr. Stephen Jackowicz, Dr. Ismail Sahin
ISBN
978-1-952092-20-6
Pages
405-433
- Applying an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on pandemics, can help shape attitudes by means of inculcating the values of responsible global citizenship, and a high sense of personal and social responsibility. In the midst of the current lock-down due to COVID-19, a teaching approach to pandemics is presented, as an interdisciplinary connection between history and mathematics, based on the methodology of modeling in mathematics and the humanities.
- The main research questions posed: a) can modeling, as analyzed in the scientific literature, be used to interpret pandemics, e.g. in the case of the ‘plague of Athens’ (430 B.C.), as analyzed in the primary sources? b) Can the mathematical tools of statistical analysis be used to understand prevention measures through the centuries?
- This chapter presents the assessment of the effectiveness of this approach, conducted by means of closed and open questionnaires, administered in two phases (pre- and post-teaching) to a sample of 40 students aged 16-17 years.
- The results highlight statistics as a key tool for understanding real-world situations, and record the strengthening of students’ knowledge in history, the raising of their critical thinking skills, as well as their enhanced ability to tackle real-world problems and understand responsible decision-making processes.
- The chapter suggests that such good practices can prepare students for the complexity of globalized knowledge.
Citation
Papadopoulou, M., Argyri, P., & Smyrnaiou, Z. (2020). Modeling in mathematics and history as teaching and learning approaches to pandemics. In S. Jackowicz & I. Sahin (Eds.), Online Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Issues, Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies (pp. 405-433). ISTES Organization.
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