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Finnish mathematics textbooks

  • Jorma Joutsenlahti (Keynote speaker)

    Activity: Talk or presentationInvited lecture

    Description

    Contributors: Joutsenlahti Jorma / AbstractIn my presentation I’ll describe what kind of exercises and what kind of content solutions there are in mathematics textbooks grades 1-6 in Finland. The results are based on my and Dr. Jorma Vainionpää’s research project with our students during years 2005-2008 at University of Tampere. We have studied exercises from three points of views: cognitive demand, structure and is it an open or a closed task. We analyzed content solutions in three textbooks which were from different publishers. We found some problematic differences in marking (calculation algorithms) and in definitions of concepts.
    Period31 May 2013
    Event titleNordic network on textbooks research
    Event typeOther
    Degree of RecognitionInternational