“In this country we talk about the successes of our athletes and our writers, but are Spanish scientists known? There is a collective ignorance about who they are and what they do, and we don’t know how to give them a face.” The university’s emeritus professor said yesterday. Carlos III University of Madrid and former president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society, Francisco Marcellon, at the Bueno Mathematics and Science Classroom in Ribera de Arriba (Asturias) who was General Secretary for Science and Technology Policy in the Ministry of Education and Science between 2006 and 2008 pointed out at the conference that concluded the second session of the cycle. “Science is absent from the political, social and economic agenda Before his intervention, Manuel Castro Díaz, professor at the University of Málaga and president of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics, spoke to the participants about the key role. Mathematics To predict natural disasters.
Marcellin considered it one of the country’s great problems “An educational system that tries to reproduce patterns” Instead of reaching out to students with “creativity and imagination,” they should be taught math. This means that “80%, there is a rejection by the students towards the subject, considering it as “boring.” Professor Emeritus of the University of Carlos III, who aligned his research side with teaching and administration, highlighted this role. Of the teacher, the teacher, he said, “he The familiar must know how to transmit it, but not in a conventional way, but essentially as a stimulus to arouse interest.” Francisco Marcelon Board of Directors of the Federation of Scientific Societies Spain, on the problem of teaching mathematics in high school. When he completed his degree, 75% of his classmates chose teaching at that level of education over university and institute. Now, he stressed, 70% goes to institutions and 7% to universities. “If we talk about high school teachers, there’s a real national drama that no one can talk about.” And, he said, “If there are no known professionals, it’s difficult to pass on wisdom.”
Marcelon, who also served as vice rector of research at the Carlos III University, joined the School of the 80s. Engineering Industrial de Gijón noted that currently “the number of women dedicated to STEAM (science and technology) education is very small.” “We are putting the country at risk with math and science,” he noted.
In his conference, he drew attention to the departure of Spanish explorers to other countries “In Germany they earn two or three times as much as here” And outsiders “find themselves in a dangerous situation.” Here, he said, “the average age of a full professor at a university is 42 and a full professor is 56, so the incentive to do something is spreading.” Carlos III University professor emeritus said, “The scientific law (approved last year) does not provide an answer to the problems of the past.” Before the public gathered in Bueno’s House of Arts and Sciences, he pointed out that “mathematics” is an autonomous and critical citizen consciousness, and its practice should not be limited to the school but should be extended throughout. Life.
Before Francisco Marcellon, Professor Manuel Castro of the University of Málaga gave a lecture entitled “The current role of mathematics in early warning systems for natural disasters: the example of tidal waves”. He mentioned the work his research team has developed based on tsunami simulation models.
“A layer of mathematical models is being developed so that when a problem arises, we try to provide an answer within minutes so that people can be notified,” he said. Castro showed public recreations of the effects of several tsunamis, such as the one in Lisbon in 1755, and praised the initiative of a mathematics classroom established in Bueno’s House of Arts and Sciences through an agreement with the Autonomous University. Madrid. Its director, mathematician Juan Luis Vasquez, served as host for the speakers.
