Teaching geometry in lower secondary school in Shanghai, China
Teaching geometry in lower secondary school in Shanghai, China
This paper reports on a study of geometry teaching at the lower secondary school level in Shanghai, China. Through an analysis of data from observing a variety of Year 9 (Grade 8) lessons, and utilising data from the students’ performance in school examinations, the study suggests that teachers in this region of China use classroom strategies that attempt to reinforce visual and deductive approaches in order to develop students’ thinking in the transition to deductive geometry education.
pedagogy, curriculum, teaching, learning, geometry, figures, mathematics, england, china, geometric, geometrical, textbook, deductive reasoning, proof, school, national curriculum, euclid, euclidean, culture, cultural pedagogy, visual, deductive, proving
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Ding, Liping
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Jones, Keith
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2006
Ding, Liping
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Jones, Keith
ea790452-883e-419b-87c1-cffad17f868f
Ding, Liping and Jones, Keith
(2006)
Teaching geometry in lower secondary school in Shanghai, China.
Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 26 (1), .
Abstract
This paper reports on a study of geometry teaching at the lower secondary school level in Shanghai, China. Through an analysis of data from observing a variety of Year 9 (Grade 8) lessons, and utilising data from the students’ performance in school examinations, the study suggests that teachers in this region of China use classroom strategies that attempt to reinforce visual and deductive approaches in order to develop students’ thinking in the transition to deductive geometry education.
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Published date: 2006
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pedagogy, curriculum, teaching, learning, geometry, figures, mathematics, england, china, geometric, geometrical, textbook, deductive reasoning, proof, school, national curriculum, euclid, euclidean, culture, cultural pedagogy, visual, deductive, proving
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Mathematics, Science & Health Education
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/40502
ISSN: 1463-6840
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Liping Ding
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