Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: martins, ana patrícia
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Gomes, Helena Margarida dos Santos Vasconcelos, Pinto, H., Ribeiro, António, Clain, T., Costa, C., Menezes, Luís
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/6890
Resumo: This paper presents some results of the project (H)ISTO é MATEMÁTICA — História da Matemática no Ensino da Matemática (History of Mathematics in teaching), a research project that has as one of its main goals: to describe the initial and continuous training of Portuguese teachers in History of Mathematics (HM), as well as their conceptions and practices on the use of HM in teaching. In particular, we present the results of applying an online questionnaire to a group of 259 Mathematics teachers from the 2nd Cycle of Basic Education in Portugal (5th and 6th grades). With this survey our purpose is precisely to characterize teachers’: (i) training in HM; and (ii) conceptions and practices about the utilization of HM in the classroom. Notice that this study intends to respond, among others, the lack of studies on this subject, particularly at the level of the first years. We use quantitative data analysis methods, namely descriptive statistics. The main conclusions of this study are: 1) most teachers considered the training in HM obtained in their higher education as non-existent or reduced; 2) the overwhelming majority categorized as non-existent or reduced their continuous education in HM; 3) most teachers reported using HM as a didactic resource in Mathematics class (many of them in a regular basis); 4) teachers resorted more frequently to textbooks and favoured the use of HM in the introduction to new mathematical subject; 5) regarding to the potential of using HM in teaching, teachers evaluated the didactic potential of HM very positively; the biggest constraints were related to the extension of the official curricula, the scarcity of support materials and the difficulty of evaluation.
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spelling Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in PortugalHistory of MathematicsMathematics teaching (5th-6th grades)teacher trainingteachers’ practicesteachers’ conceptionsThis paper presents some results of the project (H)ISTO é MATEMÁTICA — História da Matemática no Ensino da Matemática (History of Mathematics in teaching), a research project that has as one of its main goals: to describe the initial and continuous training of Portuguese teachers in History of Mathematics (HM), as well as their conceptions and practices on the use of HM in teaching. In particular, we present the results of applying an online questionnaire to a group of 259 Mathematics teachers from the 2nd Cycle of Basic Education in Portugal (5th and 6th grades). With this survey our purpose is precisely to characterize teachers’: (i) training in HM; and (ii) conceptions and practices about the utilization of HM in the classroom. Notice that this study intends to respond, among others, the lack of studies on this subject, particularly at the level of the first years. We use quantitative data analysis methods, namely descriptive statistics. The main conclusions of this study are: 1) most teachers considered the training in HM obtained in their higher education as non-existent or reduced; 2) the overwhelming majority categorized as non-existent or reduced their continuous education in HM; 3) most teachers reported using HM as a didactic resource in Mathematics class (many of them in a regular basis); 4) teachers resorted more frequently to textbooks and favoured the use of HM in the introduction to new mathematical subject; 5) regarding to the potential of using HM in teaching, teachers evaluated the didactic potential of HM very positively; the biggest constraints were related to the extension of the official curricula, the scarcity of support materials and the difficulty of evaluation.IATEDRepositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Viseumartins, ana patríciaGomes, Helena Margarida dos Santos VasconcelosPinto, H.Ribeiro, AntónioClain, T.Costa, C.Menezes, Luís2021-11-15T08:47:10Z20212021-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/6890engMartins, A. P., Gomes, H., Pinto, H., Ribeiro, A., Costa Clain, T., Costa, C., & Menezes, L. (2021). Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in Portugal. In L. Gómez Chova, A. López Martínez, & I. CandelTorres (Eds.). Proceedings of ICERI2021 Conference (pp. 7078-7084). IATED.978-84-09-34549-6info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-01-16T15:29:03Zoai:repositorio.ipv.pt:10400.19/6890Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:44:43.081143Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in Portugal
spellingShingle Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in Portugal
martins, ana patrícia
History of Mathematics
Mathematics teaching (5th-6th grades)
teacher training
teachers’ practices
teachers’ conceptions
title_short Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in Portugal
title_full Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in Portugal
title_fullStr Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in Portugal
title_sort Teachers’ conceptions and practices on the history of mathematics in teaching at 5th and 6th grades in Portugal
author martins, ana patrícia
author_facet martins, ana patrícia
Gomes, Helena Margarida dos Santos Vasconcelos
Pinto, H.
Ribeiro, António
Clain, T.
Costa, C.
Menezes, Luís
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author2 Gomes, Helena Margarida dos Santos Vasconcelos
Pinto, H.
Ribeiro, António
Clain, T.
Costa, C.
Menezes, Luís
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv martins, ana patrícia
Gomes, Helena Margarida dos Santos Vasconcelos
Pinto, H.
Ribeiro, António
Clain, T.
Costa, C.
Menezes, Luís
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv History of Mathematics
Mathematics teaching (5th-6th grades)
teacher training
teachers’ practices
teachers’ conceptions
topic History of Mathematics
Mathematics teaching (5th-6th grades)
teacher training
teachers’ practices
teachers’ conceptions
description This paper presents some results of the project (H)ISTO é MATEMÁTICA — História da Matemática no Ensino da Matemática (History of Mathematics in teaching), a research project that has as one of its main goals: to describe the initial and continuous training of Portuguese teachers in History of Mathematics (HM), as well as their conceptions and practices on the use of HM in teaching. In particular, we present the results of applying an online questionnaire to a group of 259 Mathematics teachers from the 2nd Cycle of Basic Education in Portugal (5th and 6th grades). With this survey our purpose is precisely to characterize teachers’: (i) training in HM; and (ii) conceptions and practices about the utilization of HM in the classroom. Notice that this study intends to respond, among others, the lack of studies on this subject, particularly at the level of the first years. We use quantitative data analysis methods, namely descriptive statistics. The main conclusions of this study are: 1) most teachers considered the training in HM obtained in their higher education as non-existent or reduced; 2) the overwhelming majority categorized as non-existent or reduced their continuous education in HM; 3) most teachers reported using HM as a didactic resource in Mathematics class (many of them in a regular basis); 4) teachers resorted more frequently to textbooks and favoured the use of HM in the introduction to new mathematical subject; 5) regarding to the potential of using HM in teaching, teachers evaluated the didactic potential of HM very positively; the biggest constraints were related to the extension of the official curricula, the scarcity of support materials and the difficulty of evaluation.
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