Are We Having Fun Yet? How Teachers Use Manipulatives to Teach Mathematics
Are We Having Fun Yet? How Teachers Use Manipulatives to Teach Mathematics
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2001
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P. Moyer
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老师们经常评论说，用操纵器教数学很有趣！关于教师如何以及为什么在数学教学中使用操纵性手段，“乐趣”一词中蕴含着一些重要的概念。本研究在一个学年的时间里，采用访谈和观察的方法，考察了10名中学教师在数学教学中使用操纵性工具的情况，探讨了教师如何以及为什么会这样使用操纵性工具。对参与者的陈述和行为的检查表明，在教师无法自己表达数学概念的课堂上，使用操纵性工具只不过是一种转移注意力的行为。老师们交流说，这些操作很有趣，但对于数学教学来说并不是必要的。
Teachers often comment that using manipulatives to teach mathematics is ‘fun!’ Embedded in the word ‘fun’ are important notions about how and why teachers use manipulatives in the teaching of mathematics. Over the course of one academic year, this study examined 10 middle grades teachers’ uses of manipulatives for teaching mathematics using interviews and observations to explore how and why the teachers used the manipulatives as they did. An examination of the participants’ statements and behaviors indicated that using manipulatives was little more than a diversion in classrooms where teachers were not able to represent mathematics concepts themselves. The teachers communicated that the manipulatives were fun, but not necessary, for teaching and learning mathematics.