The main focus of my thesis piece of work is the creation of multimedia tools for pupils´ self-study Math. This tool is an interactive software, specifically it is a Web page that work without connecting to the internet. Especially it is useful for children's home preparation and practising of pupils' knowledge. It can be used during lessons at school too. The main topic of this thesis is solution of equations. A part of the thesis is practical verification of primary school pupils. Their results are compared with the results of pupils who haven´t practised Math on this practical CD.

The theoretical part of this Diploma Thesis covers the subject matter of the 5th grade primary level pupils. This subject matter is further on divided into several chapters with some standard exercises included. The practical part contains an exercise book which is addressed to 5th grade primary level pupils. This part basically shows some mathematical exercises to which are pupils exposed when sitting for an entrance exam at grammar school. As for the next part of this Diploma Thesis there is the research which deals with testing some of those mathematical exercises in practice.

The diploma paper presents whole study material relevant to field of the whole numbers for listeners of primary school teaching needs. Theoretic part deals with the whole numbers problems from several authors aspects. I find out level of the skills about the whole numbers of children in the 1st and the 5th grade of the primary school and the pedagogic faculty JČU students in this practical part. Further I am focus on primary school teachers approach to this problems. Part of my diploma paper is collection of the exercise for primary school students and teachers during practice.

The main content of the thesis is the analysis of elective mathematics lessons including examples of the tasks. This work could be useful mainly to teachers of primary elective mathematics. It is divided into two parts. The first one deals with the main theory. The second part is based on the analysis of particular lessons and tasks. The work also contains a set of tasks suitable for primary pupils.

This thesis focuses on the Abaku game. Abaku is a game with numbers similar to Scrabble. The aim of the thesis was to find out whether there is a relation between playing the Abaku game and pupils' numerical skills and their understanding of mathematical operations. 843 pupils (401 players and 442 non-players) from 10 schools were tested in total. Data were collected through questionnaires and 2 tests. The questionnaire surveyed the popularity of and success in mathematics and whether the pupil was a player. In such a case, the questionnaire looked at how often a player plays and how many years he has been playing. The first test focused on the relation between playing Abaku and numerical skills and the second between Abaku playing and understanding of additive and multiplicative operations. The statistical survey was used to verify the validity of the established hypotheses. I filled the data into Excel and Minitab, where I used analytical tools. I searched for the relation between being a player, the liking of mathematics, the success in mathematics, the number of test points earned, the test completion speed, the playing frequency and the number of years played. Most of the results are sorted by grades. The research did not show any significant influence of playing Abaku on the numerical...

This diploma thesis deals with CLIL which stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning, to be more precise it deals with the integration of Mathematics and English for lower secondary pupils. To realize this method I have chosen the topics of congruent figures in the plane and reflective symmetry. The aim of my thesis was to check whether the chosen topics are suitable for CLIL lessons, whether CLIL method is not an obstacle for the activity of pupils in the lesson or if it does not create any problems with understanding of the subject matter in Mathematics. The theoretical part is focused on describing the CLIL method in general, then I summarize the preparation of the educational experiment and describe the project of the lessons in English and in Czech language. The last part is dedicated to the realization of the experiment with three different groups of pupils of the 6th grade of elementary school. The gained data have been processed on the basis of observation and analysis of the final individual work and the questionnaire. The results of observation and analysis confirm that it is possible to integrate the teaching of Mathematics and foreign language successfully. The thesis includes English and Czech worksheets together with methodology for the topics of congruent figures and...

Diploma Thesis called “Methodology Suggestion for the Choosing of Insurance Products for Individuals” deals with Procedure design of selected insurance products for natural persons with regard for their insurance needs and costs. In order to see the differences between clients' real needs and what insurance companies offer I have compared insurance companies statistics with question-forms' results. The question-forms were focused on the needs of clients in insurance. After that I have designed a procedure and algorithm of choice of suitable insurance products for cost optimization for each assurance

Wilhelm Matzka (1798-1891) was a German mathematician as well as an important person of the University of Prague and an eminent representative of the mathematical community in the Czech countries in the middle of the 19th century. This thesis is original and reminds of his life as well as of his scientific, pedagogical and organizational activities. The center of this work is formed by the analysis and the evaluation of Matzka's mathematical work, its classification in the development of mathematics and its education. There are mentioned his studies and monographs on mathematical applications like physics, chronology, astronomy and geodesy as well, which give the thesis a sig- nificant interdisciplinary character. This thesis presents also lot of historical connections and provides a view of the situation in the German, Czech and European world of mathematics in the 19th century.

Dissertation abstract The present thesis is devoted to the study of recreational mathematics, with a particular emphasis on its history, its relation to serious mathematics and its educational benefits. The thesis consists of five papers. In the first one we investigate the history of recreational mathematics. We focus on the development of mathematical problems throughout history, and we try to point out the people who had an important influence on the progress of recreational mathematics. The second article is dedicated to Edwin Abbott Abbott and his book called Flatland. It is one of the first popularizing books on geometry. In the third article we review one of the prominent personalities of recreational mathematics, Martin Gardner. The fourth article is in some sense a sequel to the third one. It deals with treachery of mathematical intuition and mathematical April Fool's hoaxes. The last article is devoted to the implementation recreational mathematics to education of students. 1

The presented diploma thesis belongs to studies that deals with map skills. This thesis focuses on thematic maps - namely the choropleth map and proportional symbol map - and research correlation between map skills and mathematical skills. The main aim is to research correlation between these two variables using didactic test. This thesis also researches the effect of success in a given mathematical skill in the mathematical part of the test on success rate in questions that examine that skill in the map part of the test. In the theoretical part of the thesis, the mathematical skills that are needed while working with maps were defined and analysed. Given that various mathematical skills are needed while working with various cartographic expression methods, detailed list of these skill has been developed for the four most widely used cartographic methods - flow map, area class map, choropleth map and proportional symbol map. The main part of the thesis is devoted to general testing of map and mathematical skills among pupils in the ninth grade of elementary schools and corresponding class of grammar schools. In the first part the test verified reading, analysing and interpretation of choropleth map and proportional symbol map, in the second part the mathematical skills used while working with these...