《数学实验》课程建设及分层次教学与实践

主要介绍在本科一年级讲授《高等数学》课程时同步分层次开展《数学实验》课程教学的教学模式、教学内容、教学方法与改革、课程考核办法,以及我们对《数学实验》课程的认识和建设过程.     

高中数学课程中的《球面几何》

《球面几何》是《普通高中数学课程标准（实验）》（以下简称《标准》）系列3中的一个专题．诚如《标准》在“课程的基本理念”中指出：“必修系列课程是为了满足所有学生的共同需求，选修系列课程是为了满足学生的不同数学需求，它仍然是学生发展所需要的基础性数学课程．”《标准》在“关于课程设置的说明”中指出：系列3和系列4是为对数学有兴趣和希望进一步提高数学素养的学生而设置的，[第一段]     

一元三次函数的图象与性质的探究——高中数学探究性课题学习的一次课堂尝试

教育部2003年颁布的《普通高中数学课程标准(实验)》中,设立了数学探究即数学探究性课题学习这一学习活动,意在倡导学生积极主动、勇于探索的学习方式.《课程》就活动的概念,活动的意义,活动的要求,活动的建议均作了比较详实的说明,并提出:高中阶段至少应安排一次较为完整的数学探究活动.通过对《课程》的学习,结合课堂     

数学实验在工程数学教学中的应用

从《工程数学》教学实践出发,针对当前面临的教与学困难,提出引进《数学实验》课以解决这一问题.阐述了《数学实验》课的特点、重要性、作用,并给出具体实施办法.《数学实验》课可全方位提高学生学习《工程数学》兴趣,进而提高应用《工程数学》解决问题的能力.     

在体验中"做"数学——记一次椭圆概念新授课

笔者注意到普通高中《数学课程标准(实验)》中至少有三次提到“体验”即:“高中数学课程应力求使学生体验数学在解决实际问题中的作用、数学与日常生活及其他学科的联系,促进学生逐步形成和发展数学应用意识,提高实践能力;……体验数学研究的过程和创造的激情,提高发现、提出、     

在独立学院开设《数学实验》课的构想

《数学实验》是在大学数学教学中将理论教学与实验教学融为一体的一门实验科学课程.阐述了在独立学院开设数学实验课的必要性和深远意义,以及在独立学院建设数学实验课的构想.     

加强数学实验中的统计教学

统计学已经成为一级学科,应该在《数学实验》课程中占到相当重要的分量.从统计学这一学科的本质出发,讨论加强《数学实验》中的统计教学的必要性,明确《数学实验》中统计教学亟需解决的问题,对统计教学提出了自己的思考和建议,为我国《数学实验》中的统计教学的开展提供参考.     

数学课堂教学设计的艺术

《普通高中数学课程标准（实验）》的第四部分《实施建议》指出：“数学教学要体现课程改革的基本理念，在教学设计中充分考虑数学的学科特点，高中学生的心理特点，不同水平、不同兴趣学生的学习需要，运用多种教学方法和手段，引导学生积极主动地学习，掌握数学的基础知识和基本技能以及它们所体现的数学思想方法，发展应用意识和创新意识，对数学有较为全面的认识，提高数学素养，形成积极的情感态度，为未来发展和进一步学习打好基础。”由此可见,     

《抛物线的标准方程》呈现方式的一种新尝试

1教学内容的地位、作用及学情分析 《普通高中数学课程标准（实验）》指出：数学探究、数学建模、数学文化是贯穿于整个高中数学课程中的．数学探究是指学生围绕某个数学问题,自主探究、学习的过程．这个过程包括：观察分析数学事实,     

例谈高三课堂复习教学应注重的几个方面

《普通高中数学课程标准(实验)》在课程基本理念中,倡导积极主动、勇于探索的学习方式,力求通过多种不同形式的自主学习、探究活动,让学生体验数学发现和创造的历程,发展他们的创新意识.数学教育的基本目标之一,就是提高学生的数学思维能力.并指出高中数学在数学应用和联系实际     

基于BOPPPS教学模式的离散数学教学改革的探索与实践

针对离散数学抽象性高、逻辑性强、理论性深、跳跃性强等内容特点,以及授课中为赶进度“满堂灌”,学生完全被动学习等现象,采取BOPPPS模式进行课堂教学.将教学过程分为6个阶段,根据学生参与反馈的情况进行内容的调整与优化,最后通过学生评教说明该教学模式的教学效果.     

A choice option between proofs in linear algebra

At their final exam in linear algebra students at the author's university were given the possibility to choose between two types of proofs to be done. They could either prove two short statements by themselves or they could explain four steps in a given proof. This paper reports on investigations of students’ responses to the choice option compared to the final grade of their exam: the relation between choice and grade, students’ thoughts about why they preferred one proof to the other, and their opinions on having to choose. The analysis is based on the students’ solutions and answers in questionnaires distributed immediately after the exam. The paper concludes that the students’ opinions do not imply that there is a ‘best way’ of giving a proof, but a choice option is preferred by almost all students regardless of final grade. It is thus asserted that the choice-option-project should continue.     

高师数学专业学生实验能力培养的理论研究与实践

数学实验活动是提高学生数学素养,提高学生应用能力和创造能力的有效途径.高师院校学生肩负着未来培养中小学生的数学探究能力和创造能力的重大使命.因此,高师院校数学实验的教学改革研究具有双重的意义.本文通过对高师院校数学实验课程体系改革的理论研究与教学实践,探讨了高师院校数学实验教学的一条新路,提供了适合高师院校学生数学实验能力培养的新教学模式和新途径.     

Puzzle-based learning in engineering mathematics: students’ attitudes

The article reports on the results of two case studies on the impact of the regular use of puzzles as a pedagogical strategy in the teaching and learning of engineering mathematics. The intention of using puzzles is to engage students’ emotions, creativity and curiosity and also to enhance their generic thinking skills and lateral thinking ‘outside the box’. Students’ attitudes towards this pedagogical strategy are evaluated via short questionnaires with two groups of university students taking a second-year engineering mathematics course. Students’ responses to the questionnaire are presented and analyzed in the paper.     

Conceptions of Turkish mathematics teachers about the effectiveness of classroom teaching

This study investigated how Turkish mathematics teachers evaluate the effectiveness of classroom teaching in terms of improving students’ mathematical proficiency. To this purpose, teachers were asked to evaluate a mathematics lesson as presented them in a vignette. By means of cluster analysis, the participants’ evaluations of the lesson were described in five thematic dimensions, which could be further assembled into two overriding categories: students’ understanding of the subject, and teachers’ classroom practices. The overall aim of the current paper is to propose a preliminary model of the framework that Turkish mathematics teachers use to evaluate a mathematics lesson.     

Students’ experiences with mathematics teaching and learning: listening to unheard voices

This study documents students’ views about the nature of mathematics, the mathematics learning process and factors within the classroom that are perceived to impact upon the learning of mathematics. The participants were senior secondary school students. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to understand the students’ views about their experiences with mathematics learning and mathematics classroom environment. Interviews of students and mathematics lesson observations were analysed to understand how students view their mathematics classes. A questionnaire was used to solicit students’ views with regards to teaching approaches in mathematics classes. The results suggest that students consider learning and understanding mathematics to mean being successful in getting the correct answers. Students reported that in the majority of cases, the teaching of mathematics was lecture-oriented. Mathematics language was considered a barrier in learning some topics in mathematics. The use of informal language was also evident during mathematics class lessons.     

Students’ ratings of teacher practices

In this paper, we explore a novel approach for assessing the impact of a professional development programme on classroom practice of in-service middle school mathematics teachers. The particular focus of this study is the assessment of the impact on teachers’ employment of strategies used in the classroom to foster the mathematical habits of mind and mathematical self-efficacy of their students. We describe the creation and testing of a student survey designed to assess teacher classroom practice based primarily on students’ ratings of teacher practices.     

Polish teachers’ conceptions of and approaches to the teaching of linear equations to grade six students: an exploratory case study

In this article we present an exploratory case study of six Polish teachers’ perspectives on the teaching of linear equations to grade six students. Data, which derived from semi-structured interviews, were analysed against an extant framework and yielded a number of commonly held beliefs about what teachers aimed to achieve and how they would achieve them. In general, teachers’ aims were procedural fluency founded on students understanding the equals sign as a relational rather than an operational entity and the balance scale as a representation supportive of students’ understanding of an equation as the equivalence of two expressions. The analyses also indicated that the ways teachers proposed to conduct their lessons, whereby they pose single problems for individual work before inviting whole class sharing of solutions, resonates with the didactical traditions found in other East and Central European countries previously influenced by the Soviet Union.     

Likert-scale questionnaires as an educational tool in teaching discrete mathematics

In this paper, we report on the results of an experiment in teaching discrete mathematics to students majoring in business informatics. We supplemented our problem-based approach to teaching the course with a set of Likert-scale surveys or questionnaires that helped improve the students’ performance. On the one hand, these surveys gave us feedback and, on the other, encouraged the students to reflect on the subject-matter. The experiment was quite successful, as the grades obtained by the students on the exam were significantly higher than usual. Here, we describe the structure of the surveys and the method of evaluation of the experimental results.     

Factors shaping mathematics lecturers’ service teaching in different departments

In this article we focus on university lecturers’ approaches to the service teaching and factors that influence their approaches. We present data obtained from the interviews with 19 mathematics and three physics lecturers along with the observations of two mathematics lecturers’ calculus courses. The findings show that lecturers’ approaches to teaching the same topic vary across departments; that is, they consciously privilege different aspects of mathematics, set different questions on examinations and follow different textbooks while teaching in different departments. We discuss factors influencing lecturers’ decision of what (mathematics) to teach in different departments and offer educational implications for service mathematics teaching in terms of students’ mathematical needs and the role of mathematics for client students.