Comparing Turkish and American middle school mathematics textbooks: A content analysis
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Prof. Dr. Lütfi İNCİKABI Türkiye
Hartono Tjoe
Kastamonu Üniversitesi
Kastamonu Üniversitesi
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (Uluslararası alan indekslerindeki dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | 36th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education | ||
| Makale Dili | – | Basım Tarihi | 07-2012 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 0 / 0 / 244–0 | DOI | – |
| Makale Linki | https://weizmann.elsevierpure.com/files/112548558/re_PME36_Vol1_PV2012.pdf#page=291 | ||
| UAK Araştırma Alanları |
İlköğretim Matematik Eğitimi
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| Özet |
| This comparative study examined mathematics problems found in Turkish and American textbooks at the middle school level. In particular, it identified characteristics of mathematics problems by employing a problem content analysis methodology. Previous studies have explored particular characteristics such as mathematics features, contextual features, and performance requirements. In addition to these three characteristics, the current study also took into account the use of technology.Analysis of textbook problems provides information on curricular expectations of developing students’ mathematical competence not immediately evident through textbook content analysis. Few existing studies have shown that textbooks can be analyzed to understand their potential impact and that instructional approaches embedded in textbooks can be explored to uncover how textbooks differ in the teaching and learning of mathematics problem solving. Because textbooks organize their instructional content into different textbook units such as lesson units, textbook units can be examined to show variations in textbook organization. Although the question of how Turkish reform curriculum teaches mathematics in general has been addressed in the literature, no emphasis was given to explore the question of how mathematics problems are presented in textbooks. It is, thus, of interest to explore textbooks’ inclusion and use of several content presentation features. The findings in this study revealed that compared with American textbooks, Turkish textbooks contained: 1) more pure mathematics problems but fewer real-life-application problems, 2) more mathematics … |
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