A Case Study of a Senior High School Mathematics Underachiever Doing Mathematical Modeling Activity

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 科學教育研究所 === 101 === The study aimed to explore the mathematics underachiever’s learning characteristics and mathematics learning effect in the modeling activities. The data analysis primarily adopted the qualitative analysis, and was further supported by quantitative analysis in...

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Main Authors: Yi-Shan Jiang, 蔣依珊
Other Authors: Ching-Kuch Chang
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98363880051059024557
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Summary:碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 科學教育研究所 === 101 === The study aimed to explore the mathematics underachiever’s learning characteristics and mathematics learning effect in the modeling activities. The data analysis primarily adopted the qualitative analysis, and was further supported by quantitative analysis in the case study. The subject was an eleventh grader, and she was also a mathematics underachiever. The researcher played participant observation for a year, and did not intervene in teaching of partnership teacher. The data collected for the study were class observations and interviews. The data included mathematics classroom videos, audiotaping of interviews, worksheets, posters, and so on. The results revealed that, first, the student could solve the difficulties when she encountered, and she developed new capabilities in this process. Second, the student’s modeling process was mainly characterized by interpreting in the theme of data analysis and statistical modeling activities and mainly characterized by working mathematically in the theme of exponential and logarithmic modeling activities. Third, the modeling activities on case student's mathematics learning more positive effects were: (1) in the modeling activities, case student could show abstraction skills, problem solving skills, communication skills and the use of computational tools ability; (2) Case student mathematics learning attitude from passive to active; (3) modeling activity, case student’s mathematics learning has improved.