Increase Awareness of the Math Exam Results

The teens who realize that the math will be useful and helpful in the future life have a higher value in the international math exams.

The report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, found that students who see mathematics as a main subject more motivated and have higher grades than those who do not. These findings are based on analysis of international math exam results and student motivation, involving more than 1.5 million students aged 15 years. The analysis was conducted by an international student assessment organizations, PISA.

In all participating countries, found that students are motivated to learn mathematics averaged 18 points higher on the math test. The advantages of 18 points, according to PISA, the equivalent of about half a year of learning mathematics. "Student motivation is a very important factor to be ready to learn, both in school and outside of school," as written in the OECD report.

The respondents in the current survey diitanya how big their motivation to learn math because of the usefulness for the future, both in the field of further study or careers in education-which is called the "instrumental motivation". Average of approximately 75% of respondents thought the students agreed that an effort to better understand the math will help them in future work. While 78% of respondents thought mathematics improve career prospects and 66% of respondents said the need to understand the mathematics to the field who would they / respondent learned in the future.

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Stanford University

Stanford University is a private university that is located near the city of Palo Alto, California, United States right in the heart of Silicon Valley, approximately 60 kilometers to the southeast of the city of San Francisco and approximately 30 km northeast of San Jose in Santa Clara County area .

Stanford University is the second largest university campus in the world, and consists of the School of Engineering, Law, Medicine, Education, Business, Earth Sciences, and Humanities, and Science. The university has a number of programs and a teaching hospital which act as a social activity that reaches to the entire surrounding community.

Stanford was founded by a couple who came from the village, the Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Stanford. The university is named after kelarga to honor their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr. who died of typhoid, every few days ahead of the anniversary anaknyanyang 16th. On the morning of the death of their son, Leland Sr. supposed to have said to his wife, "The children in California will be our children." Finally the couple soon decided to look for a lasting way to commemorate their beloved child. That is why, finally stood Stanford Univ as we have seen up to now.

Initially they were going to award a building to Harvard, but was rejected and given advice to establish its own university. At that time, the local community and those affiliated with the university calls this school as a school Ranch, because it is in fact the university is located at the former site of Leland Stanford's horse farm. The area of ​​approximately 32 km ² Stanford University. With its main campus is bounded by El Camino Real Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard and Sand Hill Road in the northwest part of the Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula.

The university officially opened on October 1, 1891 consists of 559 students its first university students, with free tuition, has 15 lecturers, and 7 of them are from Cornell University. The school was established for men and women, although the acceptance of his students are limited in the long term .. It is not caused by anti-female sentiment, but because of concerns on the part of Jane Stanford, who feel that without that restriction, the school will soon be full with the student alone, which he considered incompatible with the original intention to make this university as a memorial to her son. With the first President David Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who left the post earlier as president of Indiana University.

Stanford University's official motto is "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Idea from Stanford mate. Were quoted German Ulrich von Hutten which means "The wind of freedom blows." Because at the time the school was founded, the German language has just replaced Latin as dominant language in science and philosophy.
 
In the summer of 1886, when the campus was first designed, Stanford presents the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker, and prominent Boston landscape architect who created New York's Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted to the west coast to provide consultation. Olmsted describes a general concept for the campus and buildings. He rejected the hilly and prefer a flat surface, which is more practical. Stanford was designed by Spanish colonial style, which is commonly known as the California Mission Revival.

Securing the Future of Indonesian Children With Positive Education Program

To improve the quality of education for children, UNICEF developed the Child Friendly Education Program implemented in several regions in Indonesia, one of which is Papua.

The plan, the education program includes two modules, namely positive and creative disciplines connection. Discipline module is an alternative way to educate children without the use of violence or physical punishment. As for creating the connection aimed for parents and teenagers, which aims to improve communication skills in solving everyday problems, and to build positive relationships between parents and children, as well as inter-adolescent relationships.

Nonetheless, the goal of the program is not only intended for children, but also intended for household mothers, because the figure of the mother is in the early stages of educating and raising a child.

Because it is positive and constructive, so the program is getting a lot of support from various parties, ranging from governments, local organizations, and private parties.

And one of the parties which strongly supports the UNESCO program are Bank Central Asia (BCA). Starting from 2000, the Bank has formed a partnership with UNESCO Indonesia in positive activities are coordinated by the UNESCO. And in September 2014, the Bank and its management team and an ambassador of UNESCO visit to Wamena, Papua, to see firsthand the implementation of the Child Friendly Education pilot in the area. During the visit, BCA again showed his concern by donating proceeds from the sale of Retail Parts 006, library books, stationery, and clothing, in order to support the success of the child development program. In addition, the Bank also facilitated a workshop for teachers in the town of Wamena, with the theme of Creative and Quantum Learning.

With the existence of the program, through the Secretary BCA company, Inge Setiawati stated that it expressed gratitude and honored already involved in the Child-Friendly Education program was initiated by UNESCO Indonesia. BCA's involvement in these matters, is an implementation of the BCA to take the intellectual life of the nation. BCA hopes, with the holding of the positive programs, able to develop and improve Indonesian human resources, especially the younger generation as the nation's next.