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Liu, Jian; Liu, Qimeng; Zhang, Jing; Shao, Yueyang; Zhang, Zhikun – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
Interest is vital for students' learning in mathematics. Over the course of the Chinese mathematics curriculum reform in the past 30 years, cultivating students' positive emotions, attitudes, and values has gained growing attention. In the current study we examined the trajectory of Chinese mathematics textbook development by analyzing textbook…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Papakonstantinou, Margarita; Skoumios, Michael – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
According to the Next Generation Science Standards, science instructional materials can be efficient as long as they integrate three dimensions: science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts and disciplinary core ideas. However, research investigating the integration of these three dimensions in the content of school science textbooks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Middle Schools, Textbook Content
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Çarkit, Cafer; Canalici, Meryem – Psycho-Educational Research Reviews, 2021
This research aims to determine the use of humor in Turkish classes in secondary schools. To this end, firstly, the humorous elements in the Turkish textbooks were examined, and then Turkish teachers' views on these elements and their views and classroom practices regarding the use of humor in their classes were determined. The study was designed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Vladimir Miškovic – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2023
The purpose of this article is to present and discuss two recommended sequences of learning the areas of polygons, starting from the area of a rectangle. Exploring the algebraic derivations of the two sequences reveals that both are valid teaching progressions for introducing the area formula for various polygons. Further, it is suggested that…
Descriptors: Algebra, Geometric Concepts, Plane Geometry, Mathematical Formulas
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Bal, Mehmet Suat; Bozkurt, Necati – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The purpose of this study was to review concept teaching for a history course, and analyze and compare the case of secondary education history curriculum and course books in Turkey in this context over the past decade. The concepts to be taught were written item-by-item in the 10th-grade (2008) history course curriculum, whereas this was not the…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, History Instruction, Secondary School Curriculum, Textbooks
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Ray, Amy – School Science and Mathematics, 2020
While research in mathematics education has shown that mathematics assessments are highly consequential, traditional assessments often lag behind advancements in instructional methods. One such advancement is the promotion of mathematical habits of mind such as students' abilities to critique others' reasoning. This study explored the use of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 7, Student Evaluation, Mathematics Curriculum
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Alanazi, Fayadh Hamed – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2020
This study sought to examine the impacts of the application of the McCarthy Model (4MAT) teaching approach in enhancing seventh-grade female students' conceptions of electricity in physics. The study sample comprised a total of 41 female students, who were selected from two schools located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's city of Aljouf. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
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Olsher, Shai; Even, Ruhama – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
This study examined the changes that a group of nine Israeli 7th grade mathematics teachers, who collaborated on editing the textbook they used in class, chose to make in the textbook. Data sources included the project website (using a modified wiki-book platform), the group meetings, interviews with the teachers, individual papers written by the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 7, Mathematics Teachers, Textbooks
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Izgar, Gökhan – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate Elementary and Middle School Religious Culture and Ethics Coursebooks in terms of approaches, methods and techniques used in values education. The data of this study were obtained using the document review technique, which is one of the qualitative research data collection methods. The data in this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Values Education, Instructional Materials
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Bogaerds-Hazenberg, Suzanne T. M.; Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline; van den Bergh, Huub – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
In the Netherlands, the quality of the reading curriculum is currently under debate because of disappointing results on national and international assessments of students' reading skills and motivation. In a mixed-method study, we analyzed the content of Dutch textbooks for reading comprehension instruction (i.e., the implemented curriculum) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Textbook Content, Grade 4
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Kar, Tugrul; Güler, Gürsel; Sen, Ceylan; Özdemir, Ercan – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2018
This study analyzed the methods used to teach the multiplication of fractions in Turkish and American textbooks. Two Turkish textbooks and two American textbooks, "Everyday Mathematics" (EM) and "Connected Mathematics 3" (CM), were analyzed. The analyses focused on the content and the nature of the mathematical problems…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Fractions, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content
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Bickford, John H. – History Teacher, 2021
Young children can engage in close reading, critical thinking, and historical thinking when age-appropriate texts are coupled with discipline-specific tasks. Prior knowledge is an impediment, though. Primary elementary learners simply do not have much of a historical schema. Because of primary elementary students' familiarity with Thanksgiving,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, United States History, Social Studies
Pombo, Jose M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation chronicled a multifaceted study utilizing the Historical, Philosophical, Societal and a Takeaway (HPST) Framework, an organizational tool used for document analysis. Utilizing a case study format, this research unpacked how a charter school teacher used HPST within her own ninth grade Advanced Placement World History class. As a…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Charter Schools
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Matic, Ljerka Jukic – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2019
Various curriculum resources have emerged over the last decades, but the textbook still remains the most used teaching and learning resource in mathematics classrooms. In this paper, we use a case study to analyse the teaching practice of one mathematics teacher. The aim of the study is to examine how the mathematics teacher interacts with the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Alkhateeb, Mohammad Ahmad – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate the extent of embodying thinking levels in the eighth-grade textbook and teachers' classroom questions and exams. Five teachers who teach eighth grade were chosen from schools that obtained the highest and lowest TIMSS results in Zarqa City, Jordan. Textbook content analysis, teachers' classroom observation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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