https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52811 2026-04-09T20:40:31Z 2026-04-09T20:40:31Z Calleja, A. P. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51902 2020-03-01T06:11:57Z 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Smallness and infinity in mathematics : an intuitive approach Authors: Calleja, A. P. Abstract: The widespread availability of pocket calculators has widened the domain of possible investigations at certain levels in mathematics, in the secondary school classroom no less than in the university lecture-room. Most school boys and girls use the calculator and many of them may have asked what is the meaning of the letter e which appears on the key ex. This article is intended to explain the background which is necessary to understand the meaning of e and it is hoped that the numerical value of 2.718 assigned to e will no longer remain mysterious to readers who are non mathematicians. A knowledge of the realistic fractions e.g. that 1/6 is less than 1/4 , is the kind of mathematics required to follow the discussion.

1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Camilleri, Carmen https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51900 2020-03-01T06:12:28Z 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Impetus to geography teaching in 19th century elementary schools in Malta Authors: Camilleri, Carmen Abstract: In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Elementary School curriculum in Malta was a very narrow one. In 1850 when Canon Paolo Pullicino, the newly appointed Director of Education on his return from Dublin, where he had gone to study the Irish Education system, initiated the first attempts towards reform, he was so disappointed with the existing system of education in Malta, that he devoted a great part of his First Report (1850)1 to expounding its main defects. He criticised the quality of instruction being imparted in the twelve primary schools in Malta and the two schools in Gozo, and complained that the instruction given was inadequate.

1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Eynaud, Joseph https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51827 2020-03-01T06:11:48Z 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: L'analisi degli errori e l'insegnamento dell'Italiano (Ricerca condotta su discenti maltesi) Authors: Eynaud, Joseph Abstract: L'insegnamento delle lingue straniere non e una cosa nuova, pen) e soltanto negli ultimi anni che si cerea di dare a questo studio una base piu scientifica e piu efficace. L'analisi contrastiva e uno di questi nuovi metodi scientifici nella didattica linguistica e si porie come scopo principale di rinnovare i metodi di insegnamento e riprogram- mare il materiale didattico nella speranza di ottenere migliori risultati.

1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Morgan, Michael https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51826 2020-03-01T06:11:47Z 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The assessment of teaching practice Authors: Morgan, Michael Abstract: Education is concerned with change - with a process of change but generally speaking we educationalists aren't very keen on much change. Getting teachers or examiners or headteachers or Education Officers or College Principals to change their practices is not easy. We tend to be a cautious lot; we are inclined to be rather complacent and satisfied with the way we do things. We are imprisoned by our own comfortable habits and tightly constructed little worlds. As we progress through our professional life we progressively narrow the scope of our work. We become trapped in our field of specialization. We become caught in a web of fixed relationships. Our opinions harden. Our ideas congeal. Our horizons narrow. Our sympathies dry up. We develop set ways of doing things. Nothing surprises us.

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