ERIC Number: ED630078
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 9
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Assessing the Quality of Mathematics in Cameroon Primary School Textbooks and Its Implications to Learning
Atanga, Napthalin A.
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (43rd, Philadelphia, PA, Oct 14-17, 2021)
Mathematics textbooks for upper primary classes in the English Subsystem of Education in Cameroon were examined to determine the quality of mathematics in them and possible teacher knowledge fostered. The quality of mathematics in these textbooks is classified as medium and the dominant teacher knowledge fostered is common content knowledge. This is because the textbooks are full of accurate standard algorithms and mathematical definitions, yet lack the use of multiple strategies and representations. They also contain high proportion of mathematical explanations that are either partially accurate or accurate but incomplete. Textbooks with medium mathematical quality have high potentials of causing learners and teachers to be mathematically malnourished. [For the complete proceedings, see ED630060.]
Descriptors: Textbooks, Mathematics Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Textbook Content, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Educational Quality
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Grade 6
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Cameroon
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