MTE3106

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Be able to choose appropriate and relevant journal/article in the internet/resource center. Be able to integrate journal/article in teaching and learning Mathematics

articles represent research not previously published (i.e., first disclosure..) articles are reviewed by peers before being accepted or rejected by a journal articles are archival (i.e., retrievable for future reference)

Formal in format Sources are cited with footnotes or a bibliography at the end of the article Authors are scholars and researchers in the field and are identified as such

 Purpose

of the article is to publish the results of research may be a professional organization, research institution; usually not-for-profit
are usually statistical illustrations, in black-and-white

Publisher

Graphics

One of the most popular free websites to search for journals/articles is ERIC (Education Resources Information Center http://www.eric.ed.gov/ Example of journal/article is Latihan dan Penggunaan Teknologi Dalam P & P GuruGuru

Incorporating primary sources is not good or bad in itself. We need to establish the aims, including the target population, the kind of source that might be suitable and the didactical methodology necessary to support its incorporation.

Replacement
replaces the usual with something different: it allows mathematics to be seen as an intellectual activity, rather than as just a corpus of knowledge or a set of techniques. challenges ones perceptions through making the familiar unfamiliar.

reorientation

cultural understanding
invites us to place the development of mathematics in the scientific and technological context of a particular time and in the history of ideas and societies, and also to consider the history of teaching mathematics from perspectives that lie outside the established disciplinary subject boundaries.

clarify and extend what is found in secondary material, uncover what is not usually found there, discern general trends in the history of a topic (secondary sources are usually all topics chronological accounts, and some topics are very briefly treated or omitted altogether), and misrepresentations found in the literature.

a common belief held by many, teachers and students alike, about the static nature of mathematical concepts once a concept is defined, it remains unchanged. provide lively examples of how different representational systems were used in the past.

The idea of truth is relative can be seen when we consider how the significance of proof has changed in history (Barbin 1994). Illuminating to study examples of doubts and errors which arose when mathematicians were working on new problems and concepts.

Contributed to our understanding of the cultural context is an excellent opportunity, or a necessary reason, for relating mathematics to other fields of knowledge (see Furinghetti & Somaglia 1998) Sources become an interlocutor to be interpreted, to be questioned, to be answered and to be argued with.

primary sources are simpler and friendlier than their later elaboration.

most reasonable way to learn about the central topics taught in schools in the past, curricular trends in general and various approaches to learning and teaching.

Rediscover and emphasise the heritage of the culture in which students learn. As most cultures have written mathematical documents, it is not hard to find appropriate sources suitable for classroom use or teachers workshop

Assignment

Search for two journals/articles suitable and related to the pedagogical content and kits which help in teaching and learning mathematics in the classroom. Write the issue discuss of your journal/article obtained. Find out what is the beneficiary to you as a teacher. Present the journals/articles in your portfolio.

Jahnke, H. N. et. al (2000). The use of original sources in the mathematics classroom.

History in mathematics education: the ICMI study, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 291-328