This study compares the subject matter appeared on traditional Thai textbooks and Japanese textbooks and analyzes how extension and integration sequence on Japanese textbooks evokes students' mathematical creativity....This study compares the subject matter appeared on traditional Thai textbooks and Japanese textbooks and analyzes how extension and integration sequence on Japanese textbooks evokes students' mathematical creativity. The data were collected from the series of four lessons in the fifth grade by teaching experiment methodology conducted following the professional development project implemented lesson study and open approach in Thailand. The results show that extension and integration sequence is an appropriate subject matter to generate lesson for problem-solving classroom. The sequence of lesson leads students to excitement, curiosity, confidence and intimacy in mathematics that are powerful effects of mathematical creativity. Students can produce the different and various ways to solve problems that indicate their divergent thinking.展开更多
Most schools do little to foster creativity and imagination.In fact,schools often discourage divergent thinking.What canteachers do to stimulate creativity?What is a good way to workwith students who at home often rem...Most schools do little to foster creativity and imagination.In fact,schools often discourage divergent thinking.What canteachers do to stimulate creativity?What is a good way to workwith students who at home often remain passively glued to tele-展开更多
One of the frequently heard complaints from TEFL teachers is that students are too passive inlearning the textbook used for the course of Comprehensive English,and that they seldom performcreatively in the class or in...One of the frequently heard complaints from TEFL teachers is that students are too passive inlearning the textbook used for the course of Comprehensive English,and that they seldom performcreatively in the class or in doing the homework assigned.The teacher may try very hard to stimulatethe students but still fail to see much progress.This situation has induced the author to design andcarry out an experiment in teaching the course of Comprehensive English.The experiment is aimedat proving the possibility that a larger and freer arena,arranged in a more interesting way can pro-vide a better chance for students to make use of their creative power in understanding and learningEnglish texts.The result is encouraging and proves the expectations of the author.The approachused in this experiment,however,should not be applied rigidly,but with a certain degree of flexibil-ity in terms of time arrangement,the texts to be used,the number of texts for a semester and thespecific forms of tasks.展开更多
文摘This study compares the subject matter appeared on traditional Thai textbooks and Japanese textbooks and analyzes how extension and integration sequence on Japanese textbooks evokes students' mathematical creativity. The data were collected from the series of four lessons in the fifth grade by teaching experiment methodology conducted following the professional development project implemented lesson study and open approach in Thailand. The results show that extension and integration sequence is an appropriate subject matter to generate lesson for problem-solving classroom. The sequence of lesson leads students to excitement, curiosity, confidence and intimacy in mathematics that are powerful effects of mathematical creativity. Students can produce the different and various ways to solve problems that indicate their divergent thinking.
文摘Most schools do little to foster creativity and imagination.In fact,schools often discourage divergent thinking.What canteachers do to stimulate creativity?What is a good way to workwith students who at home often remain passively glued to tele-
文摘One of the frequently heard complaints from TEFL teachers is that students are too passive inlearning the textbook used for the course of Comprehensive English,and that they seldom performcreatively in the class or in doing the homework assigned.The teacher may try very hard to stimulatethe students but still fail to see much progress.This situation has induced the author to design andcarry out an experiment in teaching the course of Comprehensive English.The experiment is aimedat proving the possibility that a larger and freer arena,arranged in a more interesting way can pro-vide a better chance for students to make use of their creative power in understanding and learningEnglish texts.The result is encouraging and proves the expectations of the author.The approachused in this experiment,however,should not be applied rigidly,but with a certain degree of flexibil-ity in terms of time arrangement,the texts to be used,the number of texts for a semester and thespecific forms of tasks.