scholarly journals EKSPLORASI KONSEP MATEMATIKA PADA BATIK JETIS SIDOARJO UNTUK MENTRANSFORMASIKAN KONTEKS PEMBELAJARAN MATEMATIKA DI SEKOLAH DASAR

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Silvi Amaliatus Sholihah ◽  
Ikamaya Sridarma Dewi ◽  
Neni Mariana
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Rotational Symmetry ◽  
Ordinal Number ◽  
Culture Integration ◽  
Whole Number ◽  
Inquiry Method ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Straight Lines ◽  
Research Show

Abstract:. The background of this research is based on culture and experiences of the researcher when studying mathematics during became student. As Sidoarjo citizen, researcher never had experienced studying mathematics with local culture. Integration of culture and mathematics known as ethnomathematics. One of cultures in Sidoarjo is batik Jetis. The aim of this research is to exploration mathematics concept in primary school on batik Jetis Sidoarjo. The type of this research is qualitative transformative with writing as inquiry method, postmodern interview, and literature study.The results of this research show that on the steps of the the process batik Jetis Sidoarjo there are some concepts of mathematics. The concepts of the steps berofe production are whole number, the operations of whole number, measurement, and statistics. The concepts of the production process are ordinal number, time, and geometry as straight lines, zig-zag lines, parallel, rotational symmetry, curve, triangle, rhombus, circle, rectangle, oval, fold symmetry, and reflection. Meanwhile, The concepts of after production are measurement, money, and statistic. The results of this research ultimately had an impact on changing views of researcher and teacher who previously thought that culture and mathematics had absolutely not related, changed and understood that culture and mathematics are closly related.Keyword: Batik Jetis Sidoarjo, Ethnomathematics, Transformative Abstrak: Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh kultur peneliti dan pengalaman peneliti pada saat belajar matematika selama menjadi siswa. Peneliti sebagai orang Sidoarjo tidak pernah mengalami pembelajaran yang dikaitkan dengan budaya setempat terutama dalam pembelajaran matematika. Keterkaitan budaya dan matematika dikenal dengan istilah etnomatematika. Salah satu budaya yang dimiliki oleh Sidoarjo adalah batik jetis Sidoarjo. Adapun tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengeksplorasi konsep matematika di sekolah dasar pada batik Jetis Sidoarjo. Penelitian ini berjenis kualitatif transformatif dengan metode autoetnografi melalui writing as inquiry, wawancara semiterstruktur, dan studi literatur. Hasil eksplorasi menunjukkan bahwa pada tahapan pembuatan batik Jetis Sidoarjo terdapat konsep matematika. Pada tahap persiapan produksi terdapat konsep bilangan cacah, operasi bilangan bulat, satuan baku, dan penyajian data. Pada tahap proses produksi terdapat konsep bilangan ordinal, satuan waktu, geometri seperti garis lurus, garis zig-zag, garis sejajar, simetri putar, kurva, segitiga, belah ketupat, lingkaran, persegi panjang, oval, simetri lipat  dan pencerminan. Sedangkan pada tahap pasca produksi terdapat konsep satuan panjang, mata uang, dan penyajian data mean, median, modus, grafik, dan tabel. Melalui penelitian ini dapat merubah pandangan dari peneliti dan guru di sekolah dasar yang sebelumnya matematika tidak memiliki hubungan dengan budaya, berubah bahwa matematika dan budaya memiliki kaitan yang erat.Kata Kunci: Batik Jetis Sidoarjo, Etnomatematika, Transformatif

On the Sequentiality of Ordinality and Cardinality

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kingma ◽  
W. Koops
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Ordinal Number ◽  
Difficulty Level ◽  
School Grade ◽  
The Future ◽  
Task Variables ◽  
Number Development

Some research with Brainerd-like number tasks is reported. 266 subjects (from kindergarten and from primary school grade 1) completed 4 tasks: concrete ordinal correspondence tasks, abstract ordinal correspondence tasks, ordinal number tasks, and cardinal tasks. Results revealed no differences in difficulty level between concrete and abstract ordinal correspondence tasks. The ordinal number tasks were more difficult than the ordinal correspondence tasks. The data also suggest that the child acquires ordinality prior to cardinality. The last finding confirms the conclusion of Brainerd (1978, 1979). Nevertheless, these conclusions are rather weak because of serious differences in psychometric qualities between different kinds of tasks, because of poor operational definitions of cardinality and ordinality, and because of uncontrolled differences in task sensitivity. Only with more refined analyses of task variables will the future of a theory of number development be promising.

scholarly journals Causes of learning problems in primary school students

2003 ◽  
pp. 151-165
Author(s):  
Snezana Mirkov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
And Mathematics

Investigations were conducted on learning problems using the sample of eighth-grade students of primary school (N=335). The respondents opted for one or more than seven offered statements related to: insufficient previous knowledge, insufficient studying, teaching contents (extensive, difficult unintelligible), textbook and teacher?s method of presenting the contents. On the basis of the results obtained, one-third of students have problems in mastering teaching contents of foreign language, physics and chemistry, and about one-fourth in mastering those of history and mathematics. All the mentioned causes of problems are present in varying degrees in some school subjects. The causes of learning problems are markedly present in a larger number of school subjects and they are related to some characteristics of teaching contents. Respondents point out, to a large extent, that teaching contents of technical education are uninteresting. In addition, students? responses indicate that it is necessary to improve the method for mastering the teaching contents in various school subjects i.e. methods applied in the teaching process. Subjective causes, as pointed out by students, are connected with some of the subjects they have characterized as the most difficult. Unintelligible textbook is stressed to the lowest extent as a cause of learning problems compared to other causes stated for the majority of school subjects.

scholarly journals Playing Entropy Mastermind can Foster Children’s Information-Theoretical Intuitions

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Özel ◽  
Jonathan D. Nelson ◽  
Lara Bertram ◽  
Laura Martignon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Probability Distribution ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
School Intervention ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Information Today

Conceptual descriptions and measures of information and entropy were established in the twentieth century with the emergence of a science of communication and information. Today these concepts have come to pervade modern science and society, and are increasingly being recommended as topics for science and mathematics education. We introduce a set of playful activities aimed at fostering intuitions about entropy and describe a primary school intervention that was conducted according to this plan. Fourth grade schoolchildren (8–10 years) played a version of Entropy Mastermind with jars and colored marbles, in which a hidden code to be deciphered was generated at random from an urn with a known, visually presented probability distribution of marble colors. Children prepared urns according to specified recipes, drew marbles from the urns, generated codes and guessed codes. Despite not being formally instructed in probability or entropy, children were able to estimate and compare the difficulty of different probability distributions used for generating possible codes.

scholarly journals Explication of Activities in the Textbooks on Developing Primary School Age Childrens Communicative Competence

Pedagogika ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Giedrė Strakšienė
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
School Age ◽  
School Students ◽  
Semantic Categories ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Primary School Age ◽  
Listening And Speaking ◽  
Communicative Abilities

The development of communicative competence is one of the most distinct priorities in contemporary education system in Lithuania (Lietuvos valstybinė švietimo strategija 2013–2022 m.; Pradinio ir pagrindinio ugdymo bendrosios programos (patvirtinta LR švietimo ir mokslo ministro 2008 m. rugpjūčio 26 d. įsakymu Nr. ISAK-2423). Conception of communicative competence of primary school age students is founded on the communication and competence definitions: communication is the activity of conveying information, based on the principle of dialogue, through the exchange of thoughts, messages, experiences, as by verbal or nonverbal interaction, seeking mutual understanding and competence is the entirety of knowledge, abilities, and valuebased attitudes necessary for successful development / self-development and daily life. The objective to enhance effectiveness of the processes of the development of communicative competence induces turning back to the opportunities proposed by training through arts, specifically through drama activity. Effectively applied, drama activity methods can play importante role in transforming and supporting teaching. Following this we raised the research questions: How to specify activities in the textbooks by identifying the methods of creative activity relevant to the development of communicative competence? How in the textbooks (Lihuanian language, Nature Science and Mathematics) are proposed teaching and learning activities relevant to primary school age student‘s communicative abilities (listening, speaking and reading), and how activities are distributed under classes and object of textbooks? How drama activities are presented in the textbooks on developing students’ communicative abilities? This article covers a comparative analysis of the textbooks of the Lithuanian language, Nature science, Mathematics designed for primary school students. Quantitative research design was used and method was employed content analysis (Bitinas, 2008; Ferari et al., 2010; Kojanitz, 2009) of textbooks: Lithuanian language “Pupa”; Nature science “Gilė” and Mathematics “Riešutas” for the first-fourth grades. Total were analysed 32 textbooks. Provision made for sampling of texts, breakdown into constituent components, their categorization, encoding of text units under semantic categories, and interpretation of the contents categories. Drama activity was analysed under to semantic categories – to perform (lt. vaidinti) and to play (lt. žaisti); communicative abilities and activities were analysed under to sematic categories – reading, speaking and listening. Results of the textbooks analysis highlights the nature of the activities contained in to the textbooks and relationship with drama activities, and with development communicative abilities. It has been established in the textbooks, intended for the first through fourth grades, more attention is given to listening and speaking in first and second grades, while in third and fourth grades focus is replaced upon reading, listening and speaking. Analysis of textbooks has shown that pupils are given sufficient amount of activities that develop their communicative abilities, however, when doing analysis in terms of drama activities (semantic categories of the content), only but few drama activities have been identified. The results showed that the students’ communicative competence are most frequently developed in the class (in the textbooks) of the Lithuanian language and Natural sciences. Drama activities are used not always in a suitable manner, i.e. failing to take advantage of the opportunities provided by drama activities. Drama activities in textbooks normally are limited to reading of texts (in dialog) and, focusing upon memorization and reproduction of a text. It has been found out that textbooks also lack tasks associated with different kind of drama activities, there is shortage of learning resources fir to such activities, such as fairy tales, poems, small form folklore, etc.

scholarly journals Assessing adaptation capabilities in primary school children attending schools with different educational processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 495-500
Author(s):  
Olga A. Maklakova ◽  
Darya A. Eisfeld ◽  
Nina V. Zaitseva
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Adaptation Mechanism ◽  
Nervous Systems ◽  
Adaptation Mechanisms ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
And Mathematics

Introduction. Innovative teaching and learning systems involve intensification of the educational process and greater academic loads; it results in the exertion of adaptation systems in a body, especially when it comes to primary school children. Purpose of the study. Our research goal was to assess peculiarities of adaptation capabilities in primary school children who attended schools with different educational processes. Material and methods. To study peculiarities of adaptation capabilities in primary school children, we performed a clinical examination of 183 children (51.4% boys and 48.6% girls, the average age being 9.51±0.17) who attended a lyceum (group A), a school with advanced studies of physics and mathematics (Group B), and an ordinary secondary school (Group C). We also analyzed how intense educational loads were in all three educational establishments. Children’s adaptation capabilities were assessed as per functional parameters of their cardiovascular and vegetative nervous systems and catecholamines’ contents in blood. Results. The entry-level secondary schools tend to have more intense educational processes. We established that primary school children who attended a lyceum faced 1.5 times greater intellectual and sensory loads; children who attended a school with advanced studies of physics and mathematics had educational loads that were 1.3-1.4 times more monotonous than in other establishments; children who attended an ordinary school had to bear 1.8 times higher emotional loads. ⅔ primary school children had exertion of functional reserves in their cardiovascular system caused by a longer educational load duration. 36% of primary school children who attended a school with advanced studies of physics and mathematics had tension in their adaptation mechanisms caused by monotonous educational loads combined with lower noradrenalin contents in blood. Those children also ran up to 4.9 times higher risks of adaptation mechanism exertion. 48.5-56.7% of children who attended a lyceum and an ordinary school had vegetative imbalance that became apparent via activated adaptation-trophic influence promoted by the sympathetic section in the vegetative nervous systems and related to the duration of learning activities. Conclusion. Intensification of the educational process results in disorders of compensatory-adaptation mechanisms in primary school children.

scholarly journals The Production of TV Lessons in Economics Education for Primary School Children: Principles and Practice

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yullya N. Lelyuk
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Production Process ◽  
School Children ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Economics Education ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Television Channel

This article is an attempt to generalise and analyse the experience of producing TV lessons in economics education for primary school children. A series of such lessons was broadcast on the commercial television channel in the Poltava Region of Ukraine. This article deals with the peculiarities of the production process of the economics lessons, their usefulness and their role in the whole system of school economic education.

NATURE OF SCIENCE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING AT PRIMARY SCHOOL BASED ON SYMMETRY AND THE SEARCH OF INVARIANTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 207-219
Author(s):  
Simone Brasili ◽  
◽  
Riccardo Piergallini ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Learning Sequence ◽  
Learning Path ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Fitting In

The project is situated in the field of teaching physics, generally speaking, science education. It aims at studying the interplay between physics and mathematics, introducing an interdisciplinary approach based on the modern concept of symmetry or sameness within change (i.e., invariance). The interdisciplinary methods integrate the process skills common to discovery-based science and problem-based mathematics, typically of Nature of Science (NoS) modelling. We designed a teaching-learning sequence(TLS) and implemented it in an Italian primary school on a sample group (N = 96). Research conforms to pre-and post-test design with a control group. The resulting data were examined through a mixed method. We assess the effectiveness of the TLS by analysing the learning changes in the level of pupils’ knowledge of symmetry. The findings show that the pupils were in the regime of competence for grasping the changed view of symmetry. It also provides ideas that the concepts of symmetry and invariance will allow building the architecture of more extensive scientific knowledge. The study of transformations and invariants facilitates the acquisition of cognitive procedures fitting in many domains, modelling and generalization processes. This research contribution brings important suggestions for designs of successive steps in the learning path on symmetry.

scholarly journals Integrating nutrition into the mathematics curriculum in Australian primary schools: protocol for a randomised controlled trial

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Berit M. Follong ◽  
Elena Prieto-Rodriguez ◽  
Andrew Miller ◽  
Clare E. Collins ◽  
Tamara Bucher
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Nutrition Knowledge ◽  
Portion Size ◽  
Trial Registration ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Portion Size Estimation

Abstract Background Nutrition education programs in schools have been effective in improving children’s knowledge and behaviours related to food and nutrition. However, teachers find it challenging to implement such programs due to overcrowded curricula. Integrating nutrition with core subjects such as mathematics could potentially address time constraints and improve the learning of both. The primary aim of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to evaluate the impact of a cross-curricular nutrition and mathematics program on primary school students’ portion size estimation skills. Secondary aims include impact on their nutrition knowledge, attitudes towards mathematics and evaluating the quality of the lessons. Methods Twelve Year 3–4 classes from Catholic schools in New South Wales, Australia will be randomised to intervention (n = 6) or control (n = 6) groups. Teachers in the intervention group will receive a professional development workshop and resources to teach 4–5 lessons on portion size and measurements across 1–4 weeks. Outcome measures include portion size estimation skills, nutrition knowledge and attitudes towards mathematics, with data collected during three school visits (pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention, 4 weeks post-intervention). Additionally, teaching quality will be assessed in both intervention and control groups and process evaluation undertaken using teacher interviews and student focus groups. Discussion This RCT uses an innovative approach to improve both nutrition and mathematics related learning outcomes among primary school children. It has the potential to impact teaching practices regarding integration of nutrition into curricula and enhance the implementation of nutrition education interventions. Trial registration Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register ACTRN12619001071112 31/07/2019.

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