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Conversations in a professional learning community: An analysis of teacher learning opportunities in mathematics 专业学习社区中的对话:数学教师学习机会分析
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Pythagoras Pub Date : 2018-10-31 DOI: 10.4102/pythagoras.v39i1.363
Million Chauraya,Karin Brodie
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引用次数: 0
Acquiring mathematics as a second language: A theoretical model to illustrate similarities in the acquisition of English as a second language and mathematics 数学作为第二语言的习得:一个理论模型来说明英语作为第二语文的习得与数学的相似性
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Pythagoras Pub Date : 2018-10-29 DOI: 10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.347
M. Ledibane, Kotie Kaiser, M. van der Walt
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引用次数: 4
Mathematical sense-making through learner choice 通过学习者选择建立数学意义
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Pythagoras Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.424
Piera Biccard
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引用次数: 2
Students’ understanding of geometry terminology through the lens of Van Hiele theory 透过范·海尔理论,学生对几何学术语的理解
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Pythagoras Pub Date : 2018-10-18 DOI: 10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.376
J. Alex, K. J. Mammen
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引用次数: 14
Affordances for learning linear functions: A comparative study of two textbooks from South Africa and Germany 学习线性函数的代价——南非和德国两本教科书的比较研究
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Pythagoras Pub Date : 2018-09-26 DOI: 10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.378
Kathleen M. Mellor, Robyn Clark, Anthony A Essien
{"title":"Affordances for learning linear functions: A comparative study of two textbooks from South Africa and Germany","authors":"Kathleen M. Mellor, Robyn Clark, Anthony A Essien","doi":"10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.378","url":null,"abstract":"Textbook content has the ability to influence mathematical learning. This study compares how linear functions are presented in two textbooks, one of South African and the other of German origin. These two textbooks are used in different language-based streams in a school in Gauteng, South Africa. A qualitative content analysis on how the topic of linear functions is presented in these two textbooks was done. The interplay between procedural and conceptual knowledge, the integration of the multiple representations of functions, and the links created to other mathematical content areas and the real world were considered. It was found that the German textbook included a higher percentage of content that promoted the development of conceptual knowledge. This was especially due to the level of cognitive demand of tasks included in the analysed textbook chapters. Also, while the South African textbook presented a wider range of opportunities to interact with the different representations of functions, the German textbook, on the other hand, included more links to the real world. Both textbooks linked ‘functions’ to other mathematical content areas, although the German textbook included a wider range of linked topics. It was concluded that learners from the two streams are thus exposed to different affordances to learn mathematics by their textbooks.","PeriodicalId":43521,"journal":{"name":"Pythagoras","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46858298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Metacognitive awareness and visualisation in the imagination: The case of the invisible circles 想象中的元认知意识和可视化:看不见的圆圈的情况
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Pythagoras Pub Date : 2018-08-13 DOI: 10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.396
D. Jagals, Martha Van der Walt
{"title":"Metacognitive awareness and visualisation in the imagination: The case of the invisible circles","authors":"D. Jagals, Martha Van der Walt","doi":"10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.396","url":null,"abstract":"Awareness of one’s own strengths and weaknesses during visualisation is often initiated by the imagination – the faculty for intuitively visualising and modelling an object. Towards exploring the role of metacognitive awareness and imagination in facilitating visualisation in solving a mathematics task, four secondary schools in the North West province of South Africa were selected for instrumental case studies. Understanding how mathematical objects are modelled in the mind may explain the transfer of the mathematical ideas between metacognitive awareness and the rigour of the imaginer’s mental images. From each school, a top achiever in mathematics was invited to an individual interview (n = 4) and was video-recorded while solving a mathematics word problem. Participants also had to identify metacognitive statements from a sample of statement cards (n = 15) which provided them the necessary vocabulary to express their thinking during the interview. During their attempts, participants were asked questions about what they were thinking, what they did and why they did what they had done. Analysis with a priori coding suggests the three types of imagination consistent with the metacognitive awareness and visualisation include initiating, conceiving and transformative imaginations. These results indicate the tenets by which metacognitive awareness and visualisation are conceptually related with the imagination as a faculty of self-directedness. Based on these findings, a renewed understanding of the role of metacognition and imagination in mathematics tasks is revealed and discussed in terms of the tenets of metacognitive awareness and imagination. These tenets advance the rational debate about mathematics to promote a more imaginative mathematics.","PeriodicalId":43521,"journal":{"name":"Pythagoras","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.396","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47198720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 5
Beyond test scores: A framework for reporting mathematics assessment results to enhance teaching and learning 超越测试分数:报告数学评估结果以加强教学的框架
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Pythagoras Pub Date : 2018-07-25 DOI: 10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.393
M. Moloi, A. Kanjee
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引用次数: 4
The effects of examination-driven teaching on mathematics achievement in Grade 10 school-based high-stakes examinations 应试教学对十年级校本高分考试数学成绩的影响
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Pythagoras Pub Date : 2018-06-28 DOI: 10.4102/PYTHAGORAS.V39I1.377
Onyumbe Okitowamba, C. Julie, Monde Mbekwa
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引用次数: 5
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