Original scientific paper
DUAL INTERPRETATIONS IN PRIMARY EDUCATION MATHEMATICS AS ASPECT OF CRITICAL THINKING OF STUDENTS
Pranvera Gjoci
; Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Elbasan, Albania
Svjetllana Kërënxhi
; Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Elbasan, Albania
Abstract
The effectiveness of learning increases significantly if the teacher
teaches pupils different ways of thinking and reasoning. Critical thinking reaches high levels when during the teaching process the pupils are trained to acquire knowledge, seeing it from different points of view. In our study the dual treatment was applied in dual interpretation of concepts, dual solutions of exercises, dual formulations and solutions of mathematical problems. The presented experience gives primary education teachers a new alternative for teaching mathematics, meanwhile the pupils are given the opportunity to develop critical thinking through encouragement to see things in dual point of view. This experience experimented in mathematics, can be extended to other subjects, returning to work method for teachers. It is possible that dual treatment
becomes a method of reasoning and critical thinking for pupils starting from the lower classes of primary education.
Keywords
teaching and learning in primary education; critical thinking; dual treatment of concepts; exercises and problems
Hrčak ID:
68282
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Publication date:
15.12.2010.
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