New Horizons in Education


No. 41, Pages 72 - 76, 2000

Analysis of the Errors in Compiling Elementary School Mathematical Questions (Article written in chinese)

YANG Yingxiu

Abstract

Teaching material is the body of school curriculum contents, and mathematical questions in use are typical application of mathematics in practice. But how to endow the abstract mathematical symbols with some lively and practical meaning is ver y important, and it has a great effect on students in knowledge comprehension, the development of intelligence and the enrichment of emotions. In a study of this field, it was found that there are some statements like "seeking the common ground while rese rving the differences", "avoiding the curves while taking only the straight lines", and "increasing without deducting". These phenomena, in some degree, lead students into thinking against the normal ways, having scattered and dialectical thoughts and imp airing their creative powers. In this article, the writer starts with some problems that exist in compiling the mathematical questions in use, analyses the harm and reasons, and tries to put forward suggestions in reforming teaching materials on these bas es.

Keywords: mathematical questions in use; mathematics; primary school

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