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http://dx.doi.org/10.7468/mathedu.2019.58.4.589

High-school students' understanding and use of mathematics textbooks  

Park, Ji-Hoon (Graduate School of Education, Sogang University)
Kim, Gooyeon (Sogang University)
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The Mathematical Education / v.58, no.4, 2019 , pp. 589-607 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study aimed to investigate what high-school students recognize mathematics textbooks and how they use textbooks in their learning mathematics in and out-of mathematics classrooms. For this purpose, we developed a set of interview questions in order to unpack what high-school students thought about mathematics textbooks and how they intended to use the textbooks for their learning mathematics. Eleven high-school students participated in the interview; the interview lasted for about an hour for each student. The data from the interviews were analyzed. The findings from the data analysis suggested as follows: a) the students seemed to consider mathematics textbooks as crucial medium for a mathematics classroom material and thus, they were likely to obliged to use the textbooks for preparing for not only tests and examination conducted regularly in schools but college entrance examination conducted nationwide; b) however, the students appeared to use the textbooks in limited ways in which they looked into the textbooks to prepare for mid-term or final exam only, not for their understanding mathematical contents as a main resource; and c) the students seemed to realize that they rarely have had an opportunity to develop mathematical thinking capabilities and understand mathematical ideas conceptually through the mathematics textbooks.
Keywords
mathematics textbooks; use of textbooks; high school students; mathematical thinking;
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