Chinese Journal of Science Education


Vol. 11 No. 3 , Pages 235 - 256 , 2003

The Study of Practicing Teaching Module of Divisors’ Number (Article written in chinese)

Shiang-Tung LIU & Kuo-Hsun HUANG

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to help students overcome the difficulty of learning divisors number by practicing developed teaching module. The cooperative action inquiry was conducted in this study. Two authors and a teacher worked as a team to enter two fifth graders’ classes to see the effects of students’ learning. The teaching module was divided into initial activity, developing activity, and examining activity. This study found that 1) initial activity via dynamic processes improved students’ understanding the divided numbers and the divisors of an integer, 2) developing activity via operating concrete materials helped students’ enhance the concepts of divided numbers and the divisors of a number, and 3) examining activities via interesting games motivated students’ active learning and made sure learning successfully.

Keywords: divisors; cooperative action inquiry; instructional module; innovative teaching

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