儿童的算术技能在应用数学和学术数学之间没有转移
Abhijit V Banerjee1, Swati Bhattacharjee2, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay3
1Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. banerjee@mit.edu.
Nature
|February 5, 2025
概括
在市场上工作的孩子在现实世界的数学方面表现出色, 这凸显了教育课程的必要性,
科学领域:
- 认知心理学
- 发展心理学
- 教育心理学
背景情况:
- 许多来自低收入家庭的孩子在学校难以学习数学.
- 一些孩子在学校以外的非正式现实环境中广泛使用脑力算术.
研究的目的:
- 研究在现实环境中获得的数学技能是否可转移到课堂上,反之亦然.
- 将工作儿童的数学能力与非工作儿童的数学能力进行比较.
主要方法:
- 调查了印度加尔各答和德里的1436名在市场工作的儿童.
- 评估孩子们对复杂的算术计算,假设的市场数学问题,口头数学问题和基于学校的抽象数学问题的熟练程度.
- 与471名非工作的学童进行比较.
主要成果:
- 工作的孩子在复杂的现实世界算术中表现出很高的熟练程度,但在类似或更少复杂的抽象的学校数学问题上扎.
- 不工作的学童在简单的抽象问题上表现更好, 但在很大程度上无法解决应用市场数学问题.
- 学校的孩子们表现出低效的计算方法和缓慢的响应时间,阻碍了实际应用和高级数学学习.
结论:
- 在现实环境中获得的数学技能不会自动转移到正规教育中.
- 教育课程需要弥合直观的,基于语境的数学理解与正式的,抽象的数学概念之间的差距.
- 开发整合实际应用的课程可以提高整体数学能力和学习成果.
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