Researching young students' mathematical world views.

Autor/inn/en	Rolka, Katrin; Halverscheid, Stefan
Titel	Researching young students' mathematical world views.
Quelle	In: ZDM : mathematics education, 43 (2011) 4, S. 521-533 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1863-9690; 1863-9704
DOI	10.1007/s11858-011-0330-9
Schlagwörter	Vorstellung (Psy); Sekundarstufe I; Schüler; Text; Bild; Mathematik
Abstract	As an alternative to questionnaires suitable for young students, pictures, texts and interviews are used as data sources for studying mathematical world views of fifth and sixth graders in a several-step design. The project was developed in three successive studies. In the first study, the approach of using pictures, texts and interviews for researching young students' mathematical world views was investigated. Object of the second study was the development of an interrater-method for determining mathematical world views which delivered a satisfactory degree of reliability. The empirical results in the second study indicated as well that quite often mathematics courses were dominated by a view on mathematics emphasizing numbers or calculations. An analysis of students' utterances suggests that some young students might have mixed world views. This motivates a modified rating approach in a third study in which raters can give weights to several world views. The procedure indicates that various mixed forms of the world views can be observed. This brings up the question as to whether this phenomenon is due to the methodology or whether it describes the formation of mathematical world views at that age.
Erfasst von	FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur
Update	2012/3