Development of teaching materials which promote a shift from arithmetic to algebra in grade 3 and 4

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K04452
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Kagoshima University
• Principal Investigator: Wada Shinya 鹿児島大学, 法文教育学域教育学系, 准教授 (60372471)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 岩田 耕司 福岡教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (90437541) ; 中川 裕之 大分大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (00450156)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 代数的推論 / 式 / 算数と数学の接続 / 記号論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose in this research is to clarify a transitional process from elementary school mathematics to secondary ones, especially arithmetic to algebra, through developments of teaching materials and teaching experiments. Therefore we paid our attention to algebraic reasoning, developed the teaching materials which promoted it, and practiced the teaching experiments using those. As a result, We made clear that the developed teaching materials could improve the students' algebraic reasoning and recognition of expression.

Free Research Field

数学教育学