scholarly journals ELECTRONIC RESOURCES IN TEACHING THIRD GRADE PUPILS MATHEMATICS

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-496
Author(s):  
Gergana Hristova

The effectiveness of teaching in primary schools depends on the pupils’ active engagement. When teaching the pupils of today, different forms and methods have to be used to organise the learning process, rather than opting for the simple transfer of knowledge directly from teacher to pupil. Pupils today do not simply sit and listen to the teacher and answer his/her questions. They also discuss and relate what they are taught to their personal experiences. A number of studies show that a person absorbs different amounts of information when listening, watching, listening and watching, and actively participating. The pupils’ involvement during the different activities in the lesson varies. Their acquisition capacity is different when listening to a teacher’s explanations, reading, observing a demonstration, practicing or using a computer, multimedia and electronic resources. The electronic textbook (also known as e-textbook) is a teaching tool and a rich source of additional tasks and materials for pupils and teachers. Electronic textbooks are digitised versions of paper textbooks. Electronic textbooks can be used online or offline. Electronic versions contain additional materials, such as audio, video, animations, 3D visualisations and interactive tests, as well as hyperlinks to relevant websites. The electronic readable textbook is identical to the approved print edition of the textbook. The electronic readable textbook creates a realistic page-turning effect in PDF format. In Bulgaria, new mathematics learning sets were created for primary school classes in accordance with the new Preschool and School Education Act, which came into force from the 2016/2017 school year, and the modified curricula. An electronic textbook and an electronic readable textbook have been developed for each new textbook. E-textbooks are free of charge for teachers who have chosen to teach using the paper textbook of the relevant publisher. Pupils and parents can also access them after registering on the publisher’s website. The Ministry of Education and Science requires that publishers give parents and pupils free access to electronic readable textbooks.The main idea of this article is to present an analysis of the third grade mathematics textbook published by Anubis and the electronic resources it features (additional tasks and materials). The article will also include the opinions of pedagogical students collected in a survey of the use of electronic textbooks in teaching primary school pupils.

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Svitlana G. Lytvynova

The article presents an analysis of national and foreign experience of electronic textbooks use in the system of education. It is justified the use of Smart Kids technology as a system of methods, forms, and electronic educational game resources, electronic textbooks for educational process in the system of primary school. Four forms of Smart Kids technology implementation (Smart Case, Smart Teacher, Smart Class, and Smart Kids) were described considering the facilities of every school as well as the level of information and communication technology qualification of the primary school teacher. The aim of introduction of the technology for each form of teaching, the necessary equipment, and means for its implementation in primary school environment were determined. Based on the procedural approach to work of the primary school teacher, six stages of introduction of the technology were justified. Specific aspects of introduction of blended teaching using the principles of Smart Kids technology were defined. The experience of introduction of electronic textbooks to the system of primary education of Ukraine was described, the choice of electronic textbooks by primary school teachers was justified, the comments and suggestions of teachers regarding the arrangement of electronic content in E-textbooks were summarized, the main approaches of teachers to the choice of an electronic textbook and development of their information and communication competence were specified. Proposals are given for training future primary school teachers on the use of Smart Kids technology and the inclusion in the curriculum of topics such as: the concept of EER, EEGR and electronic textbook, structure and development of EER, the use of Smart Kids technology for teaching students, the latest forms of work with students, work with network programs for organizing a survey of students. The fragments of use of electronic textbook in teaching 6-year-old pupils were provided. It was identified that the forms, methods, and techniques of use of electronic textbooks in teaching primary school pupils require further justification.


10.12737/2080 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Виноградова ◽  
Natalya Vinogradova

The paper deals with argumentation on a challenging problem of introducing electronic edition of textbook for the primary school. Different opinions are presented. Teachers, educational supervisors, pediatric psychologists and schoolchildren’s parents articulate their concerns on reasonability of replacing paper textbook with its electronic version at the primary school, articulate their different opinions on functions of electronic training literature in the educational process, on requirements to electronic textbooks and their compliance with sanitary norms and regulations as well as on pros and contras of electronic textbooks usage.


2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-319
Author(s):  
Jelena Stevanovic ◽  
Emilija Lazarevic

The ability to understand the meaning of words and sentences is an important determinant of the language development, which also indicates the development of the ability to learn. Bearing this in mind, the research was aimed at studying the level of semantic development of younger primary school-age children. Semantic development was studied from the aspect of understanding the meaning of words and their use in the following lexical relations: homonyms, antonyms, synonyms and metonyms. The research was conducted in three Belgrade primary schools during the school year 2013/2014. The sample was convenient and included 431 second- and third-grade pupils. The Semantic test (by S. Vladisavljevic) was used in the study. Research results showed that none of the pupils had provided the correct answer to all administered tasks. The best scores were achieved on the part of the test referring to antonyms, while the pupils were least successful on the tasks referring to metonyms. Additionally, third-grade pupils were more successful than younger participants, while there were no differences according to gender. The results indicated that it was necessary to devote more attention to different lexical and semantic exercises at preschool and early school age, considering the link between semantic development, the acquisition of reading and writing skills and the (un)successful mastering of the school curriculum in the majority of subjects.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-426
Author(s):  
Gabriela Kirova

One of the important components of mathematical competence is the ability to solve practical tasks. According to G. Hristova “... with the teaching of mathematics in elementary classes, the skills to learn, to handle information, to communicate, to work independently and to work in a team are formed in the students” [4]. K. Alexieva stresses in her publication that “key competences are interdependent and represent a set of knowledge, skills and relationships necessary for the individual's personal development throughout life, for building an active civic position and participation in social life as well as for the suitability for his/her realization on the labour market. Through learning in each of the subjects, key competence learning skills are acquired, which includes understanding the personal needs in the learning process and discovering the opportunities and abilities to overcome learning difficulties, both individually and in groups; critical thinking, problem solving and decision making, initiative, creativity, responsibility, teamwork, and other key competences specified in the curriculum [1]. The ability to solve practical tasks develops to a greater extent in group, teamwork on projects. Project work is one of the active learning methods. It is not widely accepted in modern mathematical education in Bulgaria. The reasons for this are many. One of them is the lack of methodological literature on the subject for elementary teachers. Many specialists organize project work with their students, including mathematics, but their experience remains unpopular. Project work is difficult to organize, involves serious planning, and often involves spending money to buy the necessary materials. To successfully integrate into project activities, it is necessary for the young students to have a certain degree of autonomy, organizational skills, communicative skills, teamwork skills, skills for individual search of information, presentation skills, and so on. Teachers with creative abilities and innovative ideas develop, organize, and work on projects in primary school but this is a matter of their goodwill and professional skills. Mathematics teaching specialists in primary schools are in debt to primary school teachers in terms of published methodological work and project activities, including mathematics. Teachers' books for mathematics curricula for primary classes should include developments of at least one class project. This is done in the Bulgarian mathematics training kits of Anubis Publishing House, where I am the author [2] [3]. In this article I will present a description of the project – Thematic Classroom “The Room of Mysteries” for the third grade. It would be good the lesson to be held at the end of the school year. It solves tasks from all of the learning content studied in mathematics in the third grade. The idea of the project is based on the so-called “Escape Room” – a place where participants have to solve a series of puzzles to leave the room. Students of the class will not be locked in their classroom, of course. They will find a locked suitcase in their room that they want to unlock to see what's in it. For better motivation students will be given the role of police inspectors, who will be divided into 6 teams to solve a series of challenges – tasks. The lesson is held in the presence of parents and relatives of the students. A team of “veteran investigators” is formed from the parents, who also have to solve puzzles. Solving each task will lead to the opening of a new puzzle, and so pupils and parents will have to deal with a series of challenges that will lead to the discovery of 7 keys, identical at first glance, only one of which unlocks the briefcase. The prize, hidden away from the students, may be their annual third-grade certificates, may be holiday books for the end of the year as well as small gifts. Materials required for the project are purchased in advance with funds collected from students' parents.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-489
Author(s):  
Gabriela Kirova

Since 2015, educational reform has been implemented in Bulgaria. It was initiated with the entry into force of the new Preschool and School Education Act36. On the basis of this law, new curricula were adopted in all subjects, including elementary classes in mathematics. Mathematics kits for elementary classes, along with textbooks, study notebooks, a teacher’s book already include electronic readable textbooks and e-textbooks. “Electronic Readable Textbook” is an electronic product whose content is exactly the same as the content of the approved textbook created as a print edition37. The e-textbook is an electronic product that contains additional electronic resources to the individual development of lesson topics, such as tasks, exercises, tests and more. This educational content enables modern students, aged 7-10, to work with electronic resources independently or under the guidance of a teacher, to reflect and consolidate mathematical knowledge and skills, to develop their digital skills, to increase their interest in mathematics. Modern academic preparation for elementary teachers should also include such theoretical and practical knowledge, skills and competences for working with electronic textbooks and with the electronic resources in them. The purpose of my research is to make an analysis of the content included in the electronic textbook for mathematics for the first grade of the Anubis publishing brand of the publishing house KLETT – Bulgaria.38 On the basis of this analysis, methodological guidelines will be developed for working with the different types of electronic resources, which will become part of the academic preparation of the pedagogical students in the university discipline “Didactics of mathematics in elementary classes”. A survey of 166 pedagogical students in bachelor’s and master’s degree on their opinion on e-textbooks conducted this year has yielded interesting and revealing results that confirm the need for updating their academic training in the field of e-textbooks. The majority of respondents believe that primary teachers should use e-books in their work – 83%. When asked which subject is most appropriate to use e-textbooks, mathematics ranks immediately after the natural and social sciences, with 58.4% of the respondents citing it as the most appropriate subject for applying e-textbooks. At the same time, one third of respondents (33.1%) said they did not feel prepared to work with e-books. Of all those surveyed, 81.4% believe that it is necessary to include preparation for work with e-textbooks in university courses in private didactics. This gave me reason to head to the topic of this article and to make a content analysis of an electronic first grade mathematics textbook by classifying the types of additional electronic resources in it.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nursiwi Nugraheni

This study aims to determine: (1) how to implement comic media of mathematics learning in primary school, (2) whether the comic media can help in improving the quality of mathematics learning in primary schools. This research is a qualitative research. This research contains of three sub researches. The comic media that is implemented is an educational comic media. The comic media is implemented in CTL with talking stick variation, Pjbl model with bamboo dancing variation, and CTL model with snowball throwing variation . Comic media developed adapted to the learning model used. Because the learning model used is different, the mathematics learning syntax of the three sub researches is also different. The three sub researches obtaining the same result. Comic media can help in improving the quality of mathematics learning in elementary school even though implemented with different learning model. The conclusions of this research are (1), Comics are given at the beginning of the lesson and students try to understand the material and construct the concept through comics.,(2) Comic media can assist in improving the quality of mathematics learning.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Halil Önal ◽  
Sıtkı Çekirdekci ◽  
Alper Yorulmaz

This paper focuses on determining the opinions of primary school third-grade pupils about the conceptual meaning and use of the numbers “0” and “1”. The current study employed the case study design, which is one of the qualitative research methods. In the selection of the sample, the criterion sampling method, one of the purposive sampling methods, was used. The study was conducted with the participation of a total of 114 third-grade pupils (58 girls and 56 boys) attending two state primary schools located in the city of Ankara in the fall term of the 2019-2020 school year. As the data collection tool, a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers in relation to the concepts of “0” and “1” was used. In the analysis of the data obtained in relation to the concepts of “0” and “1”, content analysis was used. The primary school third-grade pupils made sense of the number “0” in association with the categories of four operations, ineffective element, absorbing element, number, natural number, meaningless, valueless, absence, even number, beginning, and letter. The categories in which most thoughts about the meaning of the number “1” are gathered are number, ineffective element, and uniqueness. It was determined that the pupils are more successful in the use of the numbers “0” and “1” in the addition and subtraction operations than in the multiplication and division operations.


2011 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babett Voigt ◽  
Ingo Aberle ◽  
Judith Schönfeld ◽  
Matthias Kliegel

The present study examined age differences in time-based prospective memory (TBPM) in primary school age children and tested the role of self-initiated memory retrieval and strategic time monitoring (TM) as possible developmental mechanisms. Fifty-four children were recruited from local primary schools (27 younger children, mean age = 7.2 ± 0.55 years, and 27 older children, mean age = 9.61 ± 0.71 years). The task was a driving game scenario in which children had to drive a vehicle (ongoing task) and to remember to refuel before the vehicle runs out of gas (TBPM task, i.e., the fuel gauge served as child-appropriate time equivalent). Fuel gauge was either displayed permanently (low level of self-initiation) or could only be viewed on demand by hitting a button (high level of self-initiation). The results revealed age-dependent TBPM differences with better performance in older children. In contrast, level of self-initiated memory retrieval did not affect TBPM performance. However, strategies of TM influenced TBPM, as more frequent time checking was related to better performance. Patterns of time checking frequency differed according to children’s age and course of the game, suggesting difficulties in maintaining initial strategic TM in younger children. Taken together, the study revealed ongoing development of TBPM across primary school age. Observed age differences seemed to be associated with the ability to maintain strategic monitoring.


The aim of this study was to identify the factors associated with school refusal behavior in primary school students. Student’s self-report and teacher’s measures were implemented; and students were recruited from 20 primary schools in six districts in Selangor, Malaysia. The survey was conducted at the end of school term in 2016, with a total of 915 students from Year 4 and Year 5 participating. The sample of students had been absent from school for more than 15% of school days in the current year. Pearson correlation shows a significant relationship between academic achievement and school satisfaction toward school refusal behavior. The findings of this study suggest that academic difficulties and dissatisfaction towards school environment could be the important risk factors for school refusal behavior. The present study underscores the importance of early detection and intervention as measures to reduce school refusal. Finally, the findings imply that the role of school factors should always be taken into account in connection with school refusal behaviour.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 544
Author(s):  
Ermaida Dewi

The background of this research is an instrument of learning for reading comprehension which in general is still dominated by an instrument in the form of print out which makes the students’ interest to read is reduced. In addition, this instrument is usually done manually or handwritten so that the students’ work must be corrected manually and require some time to get the results. This study aims to develop instruments or measuring devices for reading comprehension in the Primary School in Pekanbaru and find out the feasibility of measuring devices for reading comprehension skills. This product is Macromedia Flash 8 based namely "MaCaMi" which stands forMari Membaca dan Memahami. The research method used was the 4D model with four stages, such as the define stage, the design phase, the develop phase, and the dessiminate stage which is limited to the third stage. The data of this study were obtained from product design expert validation questionnaire, questionnaire validated by linguists, teacher response questionnaire and students response questionnaire. The data were generated quantitatively and analyzed by using the assessment criteria to determine the product quality. The results of this study showed the assessment of product design experts in draft 1 had an average percentage of 69.61% with the appropriate category then had increased in draft 2 to 90.56% with the very feasible category. The results of  the feasibility test by linguists in draft 1 with had average percentage of 95.30% with the very feasible category then increased in draft 2 to 97.20% withn the very feasible category. The results of the teacher's response to the reading comprehension measuring instrument in the Primary School in Pekanbaru developed by researchers obtained an average percentage of 93.50% with a very good category and the results of students' responses to the measuring instrument obtained an average percentage of 89.90% with a category very good. Based on these results, it can be concluded that the product developed by researchers is feasible to be used as a measure of reading comprehension ability of primary school students.


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