An Action Research of Integrating Maker Spirit and Multiple Strategies into Math Teaching for Fifth-Grade Students in Elementary School

• Main Authors: TSAO, HSIAO-YUN, 曹曉芸
• Other Authors: LIU, HUA-TSUNG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/aj2k2w

碩士 === 南華大學 === 國際事務與企業學系公共政策研究碩士班 === 106 === 　　The purpose of this study was to explore how teachers use maker spirit and multiple strategies of course design, and the process of implementation into math teaching for fifth-grade studentsin elementary school. The aim of this study was to understand the influences of using maker spirit and multiple strategies on the students’ performance and growth in math, and the impacts on students’ learning motivation. This study also attempted to learn how teachers improve professional growth through self-reflection, and some problems that teachers encountered with, and how they found the solutions to solve the problems. 　　An action research was utilized in this study. The subjects of this study were twenty-one fifth grade students from an elementary school in New Taipei city.There were ten boys and eleven girls in a class taught by the researcher. Twenty-one students received Math teaching with maker spirit and multiple strategies in heterogeneous groups for 21 weeks. The data were collected and analyzed with observation-records during classes, interview notes, student works, learning lists, math diary, questionnaire and other related documents in order to answer the research questions. The main findings of the study are as follows: 1.　Integrating the maker spirit into the teaching of mathematics improves students' motivation and changes their attitudes. 2.　The use of multi-strategies teaching methods can enhance the interaction among peers and also between teachers and students, stimulate students' learning motivations, and achieve good learning performance. 3.　Teachers' influence on the thinking and professional growth of teaching activities are the changing role of teachers, the ability of teachers to enhance curriculum design, and the habit of writing teaching-reflection. 　　This study provides recommendations for applyingmaker spirit in the elementary school. Furthermore, it also provides some suggestions for further studiesin this direction.