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Record W25637981 · doi:10.5951/tcm.9.7.0374

Time-Travel Days: Cross-Curricular Adventures in Mathematics

2003· article· en· W25637981 on OpenAlexaffabout
Irene Percival

Bibliographic record

VenueTeaching Children Mathematics · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMathematics
TopicHistory and Theory of Mathematics
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVisitor patternAdventureMathematics educationClass (philosophy)SkepticismThe ImaginaryVisual artsMathematicsPedagogySociologyPsychologyHistoryComputer scienceArtArt historyEpistemologyPhilosophyArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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A visitor to Carol Pettigrew's grade-three class in North Vancouver, Canada, might be forgiven for skepticism when told that a mathematics class is about to start. The children, most wearing sheets pinned around them like tunics, have their heads down on their desks. Music plays while the teacher's voice quickly leads them back through the highlights of two millennia of history. Finally the music stops and Pettigrew announces, “And here we are, in an Ancient Greek school.” Unlike other imaginary journeys that elementary students take, the main purpose of these “Time-Travel Days” is to learn about the mathematics and mathematicians of previous ages. The children revel in the experience.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0150.006
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.278 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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