Development and Assessment of Learning-Teaching Trajectory in Mathematics during Transitional Grades

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24300267
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Ohtani Minoru 金沢大学, 学校教育系, 教授 (50241758)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HINO Keiko 宇都宮大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70272143) ; NUNOKAWA Kazuhiko 上越教育大学, 学校教育研究科, 教授 (60242468)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 科学教育カリキュラム / 数学教育 / 学習・教授軌道 / デザイン研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research proposed a hypothetical learning-teaching trajectory in function during transitional mathematics from elementary to secondary so as to suggest alternative approach to enhance articulation between elementary and junior secondary mathematics teaching and assessment. We organized a collaborative team with researcher and expert practitioners in both schools so as to organize design research and to make qualitative analysis of the teaching experiment. Main results of the research are: (1) a hypothetical learning-teaching trajectory of function in grades 5 to 8; (2) development of a reform unit design and method of teaching experiment; (3) identification of critical obstacles in the trajectory and proposal for promising strategy to design learning environment in which discourse and ICT play crucial roles.

Free Research Field

Mathematics Education