A comparison of two grade 7 mathematics textbooks: one UK, one Singapore.

Autor/in	Dindyal, Jaguthsing
Titel	A comparison of two grade 7 mathematics textbooks: one UK, one Singapore.
Quelle	Aus: Jones, Keith (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development (ICMT-2014). Southampton: University of Southampton (2014) S. 197-202 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen; Literaturangaben S. 202
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-0-85432-984-7; 978-0-85432-985-4
Schlagwörter	Verständlichkeit; Sekundarstufe I; Schulbuch; Textgestaltung; Mathematikunterricht; Lesbarkeit; Online-Publikation; Großbritannien; Singapur
Abstract	This study involved the comparison of two Grade 7 mathematics textbooks. The first book was The School Mathematics Project Book 1 (SMP), which was first published in the UK in 1965, following the New Math Reform of the 1960s. The second book was the New Express Mathematics 1 book, which was first published in 2007 by Multimedia Communications in Singapore and approved by the Ministry of Education for use in Singapore schools. The textbooks were compared using a set of six criteria based on a framework developed by the Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1980. The following six criteria were used: (1) Readability, (2) Organisation of Student Textbook, (3) Physical Characteristics, (4) Content, (5) Auxiliary Materials, and (6) Special Considerations. A composite score, based on a five-point scale, was calculated for each book: 3.43 for the SMP book and 4.045 for the New Express book. The scores basically informed the comparison of the textbooks in a general sense and are supplemented by a more detailed view of the six criteria over the two textbooks.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2017/1