The Teaching/Learning Process and Assessment Practice: Two Intertwined Sides of Mathematics Education

Author(s):  
Luciana Bazzini
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Nanang Setiadi

Abstract                                                              This paper discusses the use of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) as an alternative approach to enhance Indonesian 5th-grade students’ ability in multiplication and division. It presents the analysis of Indonesian 5th-grade students’ difficulties in applying stacking method for multiplication and division. Furthermore, it describes a mathematics teaching learning practice to stimulate students constructing their strategies, mathematical models and number sense in solving mathematical problems that involve multiplication and division. The teaching learning practice aims to apply RME for helping students develop their multiplication and division ability.Findings shows that stacking methods for multiplication and division are difficult for the students. The main students’ problem in multiplication and division stacking methods is in reapplying the steps of the methods. The steps taken to improve the learning process by implementing RME are: (1) analyze in detail the difficulties of students in multiplication and division stacking methods, (2) provide contexts of mathematical problems that can stimulate students to think mathematically, (3) hold a class mathematics congress, and (4) conduct a test to measure students’ achievement.            Based on the students’ achievement, there has been several improvements. After RME, there were more students whose grades passed the Minimum Mastery Criteria. Moreover, there was a student who got 100. Then, the average test was higher. Meanwhile, there were only 3 children whose grades were 0. Thus, the application of RME has helped the 5th-grade students to improve their ability in multiplication and division.         


Author(s):  
Gohar Muradyan

Student assessment is an integral part of any teaching learning process. Assessment practices have a large number of functions to perform in the context of the teaching, learning process. This article challenges several myths about student assessment: that we know what we're grading, that we know what the results mean, that we can agree in practice on various criteria, which is possible to establish and apply unanimously. Despite these seeming difficulties, this article argues for the validity of assessments developed within particular academic environments in the higher learning institutes of Armenia. Do contemporary assessment practices perform these function: it is a critical question to be analysed. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the myths and realities of the assessment practice in the higher education sector.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiwit Kurniawan ◽  
Tri Hidayati

Religion assumes a conclusive role in vast parts of life, including creating inspiration and motivation in learning and constituting certain knowledge. Obviously, mathematics is a delicate subject for numerous students in any education level. By examining a religious role in term of mathematics and the obligation to learn about, religion may convey its importance in present-day, an era that requests high aptitude in mathematics. This study, utilizing library research method to exhibit relevant elements of religion, as inspiration and motivation, that can support the scholarly activities, particularly learning and developing mathematics idea in classroom. The notion of 'sacred science' from Seyyed Hossein Nasr was utilized to uncover the significant function of religion, particularly Islam, in looking for knowledge. Nasr considered that God, extraordinary preeminent entity, radiates in a profane world. Based on this idea, a motivation to embrace the ultimate reality and its numerical structure in nature is a type of intimacy to God. This writing demonstrates that religion still has its relevance in everyday scholastic exercises, including mathematics education. The teaching-learning process of mathematics will be increasingly meaningful for students by embeddings religion values as inspiration and motivation and considering its activities as a worship to .


2018 ◽  
pp. 951-969
Author(s):  
Jean-François Hérold ◽  
Jacques Ginestié

The aim of this paper is to examine the use of digital technologies in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (STEM). We will discuss the effectiveness of the teaching-learning process in terms of the elements that could possibly promote learning with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in STEM education. This will be done, first, by taking a learner-centred approach to an activity that students carried out using ICT to performing a task set by the teacher (cognitive engagement in the task, motivation, nature of knowledge built). The aim was to understand how ICT could be a cognitive aid for the student. Second, a teacher-centred perspective to the development of prescribed tasks (form, knowledge carried by the task) was used to identify how ICT can be adapted to aid student learning in STEM education.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. e8899108976
Author(s):  
Carlos Luis Pereira ◽  
Marcia Regina Santana Pereira

The central scope of this research addresses the Psychology of Mathematics Education for professionals with a degree in Pedagogy courses, focusing on teachers who exercise the  teaching of mathematics teaching in the early years of elementary school I. This article analyzes and presents the potentialities and contributions of this theoretical field of knowledge in       the teaching-learning  process of Mathematics. Education aiming at improvements of the Brazilian student in the external evaluations of the Brazil Test published by the SAEB of 2017 and 2019, as well as the pedagogical practice between teacher-student-knowledge. It was justified the insufficient proficiency in mathematics of Brazilian students of about 70%, as well as the reduced number of scientific productions on the theme of this article. The objective of this study was to present contributions of the Psychology of Mathematics Education in the early years of elementary school I. On the methodological path, it was characterized within the qualitative approach and in the procedures of bibliographic research. Among the main results were the discourses of the interviewed subjects pointing out the potentiality of the theoretical basis of Psychology of Mathematics Education in their pedagogical knowledge/doing. It was found that the psychological, cognitive and affective-social dimension have implications for students' learning. It concludes an emergence of a further discussion of this field of knowledge in the degree of pedagogy courses in Brazil to increase the quality of pedagogical intervention of pedagogue teachers in mathematics classes, aiming to increase the quality teaching-learning process of mathematics in the early years and the results of institutional and large-scale evaluations.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nida Jarmita ◽  
Hazami Hazami

This research is aiming at knowing the passing grade of students’ achievement, the activity of students and teacher in the teaching learning process of perkalian by using realistic approach. It was designed by using a classroom action research that took place at Class IV-2 MIN Tungkob, Aceh Besar. The subject chosen was 37 students. The data were collected by observation and test. The data got then analyzed by using mean score and percentage formula. From the result of three cycles of teaching, it was found that students could achieve the passing grade at 83,3% classically. Students activities also showed an ideal time which is 86,5%. Meanwhile, the teacher’s ability to manage the classroom was in the level of good (4,4).


Author(s):  
Jean-François Hérold ◽  
Jacques Ginestié

The aim of this paper is to examine the use of digital technologies in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (STEM). We will discuss the effectiveness of the teaching-learning process in terms of the elements that could possibly promote learning with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in STEM education. This will be done, first, by taking a learner-centred approach to an activity that students carried out using ICT to performing a task set by the teacher (cognitive engagement in the task, motivation, nature of knowledge built). The aim was to understand how ICT could be a cognitive aid for the student. Second, a teacher-centred perspective to the development of prescribed tasks (form, knowledge carried by the task) was used to identify how ICT can be adapted to aid student learning in STEM education.


Author(s):  
Érika Capelato ◽  
Ueslei Viana Batista

Resumo: Este trabalho é resultado de um projeto universitário desenvolvido por meio de oficinas de educação financeira junto aos alunos do oitavo e nono ano do Ensino Fundamental da modalidade Educação de Jovens e Adultos de uma escola pública no município de Araraquara. Os objetivos do projeto foram proporcionar aos alunos discussões de temáticas que contribuíssem para aprimorar suas habilidades e competências em situações financeiras e, ainda, incluir neste contexto de ensino-aprendizagem um outro recurso, o computador. As oficinas foram desenvolvidas usando duas abordagens; uma sistêmica, com apresentação dos conteúdos; e outra, prática, com o uso do computador, especificamente de planilhas do Excel. Os resultados apontam que o computador, principalmente o software trabalhado, possibilitou aos estudantes construir e explorar os conceitos financeiros abordados nas oficinas mostrando-se, assim, uma metodologia integradora no processo de ensino-aprendizagem para a educação financeira como parte da educação matemática. Palavras-chave: Educação de Jovens e Adultos; Ensino Fundamental; Educação Financeira; Educação Matemática; Excel. Computer use in financial education: an account of experience in education of youth and adults Abstract: This work is the result of a university project developed through financial education workshops with the eighth and ninth grade students of the Youth and Adult Education modality of a public school in the city of Araraquara. The objectives of the project were to provide students with discussions on topics that contributed to improve their skills and competences in financial situations and also to include in this teaching-learning context another resource, the computer. The workshops were developed using two approaches; a systemic one, with presentation of the contents; and another, practice, using the computer, specifically Excel spreadsheets. The results show that the computer, especially the software, enabled the students to construct and explore the financial concepts addressed in the workshops, thus showing an integrative methodology in the teaching-learning process for financial education as part of mathematics education. Keywords: Youth and Adult Education; Elementary Teaching; Financial Education; Mathematics Education; Excel.


Author(s):  
Ricardo-Adán Salas-Rueda

The aim of this quantitative research is to analyze the impact of Facebook in the teaching-learning process in financial mathematics education, using data science, machine learning, and neural networks. The sample is composed of 46 students from the Bachelor of Administration, Commerce and Marketing program at La Salle University. The results of machine learning (linear regression) indicate that sending messages, watching instructional videos, and publishing exercises on Facebook supports the teaching-learning process in financial mathematics. Likewise, data science identified six predictive models for the use of Facebook in the educational context, by means of the decision tree technique. Analysis using neural networks identified the influence of sending messages, watching instructional videos, and publishing exercises on Facebook during the assimilation of knowledge and development of mathematical skills. Finally, Facebook is a technological and communication tool that transforms the organization of teaching and learning activities in financial mathematics education.


2020 ◽  
pp. 254-267
Author(s):  
Alessandra Priore

The system of relationships and emotions that develop in the teaching-learning process define the complexity of teachers' education and pose the challenge of bringing out the emotional and affective culture that guides school life. Several studies on teaching practices highlight the tendency to refer to technical aspectsas a key dimension of professionalism, rather than on relational and emotional dimensions that can promote the relationship with student. The creative and unprecedented reconfiguration of professional practice is configured as the outcome of a reflexive process of subjective construction and de-construction of the profession and its development.The paper proposes a reflective training experience, which involved 76 teachers, focused on emotional and relational dimensions on teaching and based on the use of the narrative-autobiographical instruments (diary, narrative, metaphor). The results achieved in the monitoring phase show that the training offered an opportunity to reflect on oneself and one's personal and professional experience, starting from the use of alternative perspectives and interpretations than those that are already in use


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