Word problem solving approaches in mathematics textbooks: a comparison between Singapore and Spain
[EN]Singaporean children are the best performers on international achievement tests in mathematics (i.e. the TIMSS). Their excellent results could be due at least partly to certain characteristics of the textbooks used there (Oates 2014). Therefore, these materials could be taken as a good benchmark...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) |
| Repositório: | GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/154449 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/154449 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Word problem solving Mathematics textbooks Primary education Assessment and evaluation Educational system Educational Measurement Problem Solving 6102.04 Psicología Escolar evaluación de la enseñanza solución de problemas |
| Resumo: | [EN]Singaporean children are the best performers on international achievement tests in mathematics (i.e. the TIMSS). Their excellent results could be due at least partly to certain characteristics of the textbooks used there (Oates 2014). Therefore, these materials could be taken as a good benchmark to describe and evaluate aspects of the textbooks of other regions that could be improved. For this reason, the word problem-solving approaches proposed by primary education math textbooks from Spain were compared with those from Singapore based on the presence of the problem-solving steps that are most characteristic of a genuine word problem-solving approach. The results show that the Singaporean textbooks include much more reasoning than the Spanish textbooks, while they include fewer problem-solving steps related to strategies and checking. We conclude that Singaporean textbooks provide better scaffolding for high-quality learning of word problem solving than Spanish textbooks. |
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