ERIC Number: ED630326
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
How Proportional Reasoning Is Presented in U.S. and Korean Mathematics Textbooks
Son, Ji-Won; Jo, Seungjung; Wallace, Samantha; Obielodan, Florence F.
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 (44th, Nashville, TN, Nov 17-20, 2022)
The purpose of this study is to examine how proportional reasoning is introduced and developed in two widely used U.S. and Korean mathematics textbooks for grades 6-7. Seven research-based frameworks that identify student learning opportunities for understanding of proportional reasoning were used to analyze the textbooks. The results showed that American textbooks include more problems that require explanations and make use of more effective contextual and number structure of problems than Korean textbooks. In contrast, Korean textbooks make a shift from providing highly contextualized problems to presenting abstract and purely computational problems, which aligns with the process of concreteness fading. In addition, Korean textbooks contain more unique types of topics and representations. [For the complete proceedings, see ED630210.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Grade 6, Grade 7, Cultural Differences
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 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Grade 7; Junior High Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: United States; South Korea
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A