Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
In recent years, the level of basic mathematical skills as well as analytical thinking skills of secondary school students in the Netherlands has been on the decline, with consequences for the rest of these students’ academic career. Polya’s four step method for problem solving is a well-regarded and popular method throughout literature, which brings about the improvement of both students’ attitudes towards mathematics and their (relational) understanding. In this paper a variation upon the method is proposed which aims to address the weaker aspects of Polya’s method while enabling the students to develop their analytical thinking skills. In particular, the proposed method aims to promote the active use of mathematics as a language students can freely and easily express themselves in within the classroom so as to address the declining level of mastery within the subject mathematics.
Period
5 Feb 2025
Event title
14th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, CERME14