A presentation on how knowledge of valency in the Romani language can be a learning tool for learning Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
2. A program where the Romani women's use of the
valence in their language can become
STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics) skills.
3. Women in some cultures are at a
disadvantage for learning STEM subjects.
The Romani language is spoken by the
Romani people across a diverse set of
locations in Europe and elsewhere. The
community is sometimes referred to in films
and novels as the Gypsy community, but the
formal name of the community is Romani.
4. The proposed solution utilizes what is
called valence in the Romani language
to be a resource for learning STEM
courses.
This would be taught in a free online
course for those who speak Romani in
different parts of the world.The
knowledge of the language becomes a
learning tool as shown in the following
slides:
5. Romani makes use of what is called valency which
can increase by means of markers such as -av-, -ar-,
and -ker and decrease by means of markers -jov-
and -áv-.
In general, Romani valence is how words bind to
other words.
6. Valency in linguistics is derived or
inspired from valency in chemistry,
which a measure of an atom's
combining power.
As can be seen, to explain
Romani to Romani speakers allows
for an analogy to chemistry.
In the present time, valency is
also the word used in the world of
Big Data for how interconnected
the data is.
7. There is essentially an analogy to valency as found
in Romani, which is arity,
which is also found in logic and computer science
as well.
8. To demonstrate the types of equations
arity can produce, what could be called the
valency of multiple variables
could be presented as:
The function f(x) = 6x Unary Function
f(x,y)= 6xyBinary Function
9. In valency, as found in languages like Romani, instead of unary and binary there is monovalent
and divalent as shown as follows:
She laughs Monovalent
She gave the gift Divalent
As can be seen, analogies to Romani can be used to teach introductory material for mathematics,
computer science, and even logic.
10. The final part of the free online course is the
presentation of valance and Big Data.With large sets
of data, valence is the measurement of the
connectedness of parts of the data.
A good example of this application of valency could
be social media, where large sets of data are actually
connected by means of individuals and businesses
having social media connections to other individuals
and businesses.
