A REVIEW AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOKS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2017, Vol 75, Issue 2
Abstract
Research collected and reviewed a number of empirical studies in the feld of educational research regarding the analysis of mathematics textbooks to provide summary and overview the information there in. The questions were identifed via Google Scholar and collected from different data sources. A total of 44 papers published from 1953 to 2015 were selected based specifc criteria, with 24 articles include in the SSCI database. Descriptive statistics were used to evaluate and interpret the results. A perspective on the learning analysis methods was used to collect studies and showed the mathematics textbooks analyzed were investigated under four themes: The analysis of standards, distributive property, language in mathematics, and others. School’s level which is investigated textbooks: Kindergarten, elementary, junior school, and senior school. Subjects covered in the mathematics textbooks included algebra and arithmetic, geometry, measurement, data analysis and probability, number and operations, among others. Research found the most frequently discussed in perspective on learning was the analysis of the standards and the distributive property (15 studies), the most common subject was number and operations (16 studies), and the highest number in school’s level was elementary school (18 studies). Nevertheless, fewer studies have been found to analyzing mathematics textbooks. Future research can pay attention for the relevant theoretical issues and collaborate studies in more perspective learning analysis.
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Cheng Chieh Chang, Sari Muthia Silalahi
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