Global Journal of Technology and Optimization

The focus of the study is to apply the mapping method to innovate curriculum design. The purpose is to explore how to use the teaching method concept mapping to help learners build scaffolding, so that learners can organize scattered knowledge and construct meaningful integer knowledge through concept mapping. In other words, it helps the intermediate phase learners to present integer abstract concepts in a practical way and show the interrelated concepts and facts when working with integers. Concept mapping is regarded as a powerful tool for teaching Science and this study explores how effective the concept mapping skills can be used in exploring Mathematical concepts such as integers. The analysis of this paper is done using the Blooms Taxonomy.

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the preferred contexts in learning number concepts in integers. The research also looked at the impact of contexts in the interpretation of the integer using stories. The researcher decided to interrogate and find out if the use of contexts could enhance the learners’ academic performances. The problem is the intermediate phase learners are operating two grade levels behind the expected and South African intermediate phase learners are performing poorly in Mathematics. The scope is on focus relevance, appropriateness, and correctness in the development of mathematical thinking and practice. The argument is the use of contexts in learning number concepts can facilitate the understanding of the learning of the number concept integers. Discussions on different contexts for learning integers were done by intermediate phase learners (Grade 4-6) in one primary school in Johannesburg North in Gauteng Province. Interviews on preferred contexts in learning number concept integers comprised 29 learners. The research adopted a qualitative approach of analyzing the interview responses from the learners. Analysis of results indicates that the use of preferred contexts in learning number concepts in contexts can either facilitate or hinder the learning of number concepts in integers in the intermediate phase. The findings imply that the use of contexts has a positive or a negative impact on the learning of number concepts in context integers. These results can be generalized to all the other learners who are in the same phase.

Allocation of subjects is an important task for every educational institution. Subject allocation is considered as a major factor to the teaching quality.

In this study, we used the Fuzzy allocation methods: centroid ranking method and Robust ranking method, for allocating the subjects in a department for the coming semester. We used the scores obtained by the faculty members, from the Chairman, Course Director and the students, based on the performance in the previous semester.

A vehicle that includes in-vehicle controller(s) coupled to an external network transceiver, and configured to register a key fob and/or a mobile device configured as a key fob. The transceiver is configured to communicate autonomously with remote servers to respond to a key fob signal received from the server, which includes an authentication code and a remote control command generated by the key fob and/or mobile device configured as the key fob. In further variations, the key fob is also configured to be paired and/or registered by an external mobile device, by the authentication code, and to generate the remote control command via the mobile device. In response to the key fob signal, the controller(s) autonomously adjust vehicle systems, such as locking or unlocking, arming and disarming a security system, adjusting cabin and/or seat temperature and configuration preferences, as well as other driver vehicle preferences.

Many types of personal, commercial, and industrial vehicles, including combustion engine and hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles, hereafter collectively referred to as "vehicles," include several types of in-vehicle computing systems, controllers, interfaces, networks, communications capabilities, and applications. Such onboard systems and applications enable vehicle operation, as well as vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications, and related communications and remote control capabilities that utilize key fobs and other types of mobile devices via such contemplated communications systems.

The disclosure is directed to a vehicle that includes at least one and/or one or more in-vehicle and/or onboard controller(s) that is/are coupled to an external network transceiver. The controller(s) are configured to register and/ or "pair" a key fob having an authentication code, to enable remote control of the vehicle by the key fob. The transceiver is configured to communicate autonomously with one or more remote server(s) in communication with an external network, such as the internet, and may be one or more transceivers each configured for particular communications protocols and capabilities, such as for example, Wi-Fi and cellular communications.