Group Presentation Group 3 Chair: Ali Hamdani HM Diah

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Group PresentationGroup 3Chair Ali Hamdani HM
Diah Ibrahim Haji Abdul Rahman Brunei
DarussalamMembers Shi Bingxing (China)Ida
Karnasih (Indonesia) Rohani Ahmad Tarmizi
(Malaysia)Soledad Ulep (The Philippines), Ivan
Vysotsky (Russia)Yip Hoe Yin (Singapore)Report
Yeap Ban Har (Singapore)
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Is textbook use prevalent in various countries?
Country Primary Secondary
Brunei Darussalam Yes Yes
China Yes Yes
Indonesia Yes Yes
Malaysia Yes Yes
Philippines Yes Yes
Russia Yes Yes
Singapore Yes Yes

• How are textbooks used?
• How can textbooks be used meaningfully?

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How Do You Use Textbooks in Your Country?

• To Implement Curriculum
• In many countries where there is a national
  curriculum, textbooks are written to ensure
  schools implement the curriculum according to the
  intended scope and sequence.
• For example, Malaysian textbooks include the
  Polyas Four-Stage Model to help teachers
  implement the teaching of problem solving which
  is an emphasis of the national curriculum. In
  Singapore, the Ministry of Education evaluate
  textbooks written by private publishers before
  the textbooks are approved for use in schools.

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How Do You Use Textbooks in Your Country?

• To Influence Pedagogy
• For example, in Brunei, teachers are encouraged
  to use multiple representations. The textbooks
  represent concepts in multiple representations so
  that the teachers are influenced to teach using
  different representations. In Singapore, teachers
  are familiar with the CPA Approach (based on
  Jerome Bruner) because the primary school
  textbooks are written based on this approach.
• In China, context problems are used to encourage
  teachers to make mathematics learning meaningful.
  In a lesson study project, Filipino high school
  teachers who could not find such context problems
  looked elsewhere. However, the absence of context
  problems in Filipino textbooks make it
  inconvenient for teachers to use them in the
  classroom on a regular basis.

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How Do You Use Textbooks in Your Country?

• To Improve Teachers Knowledge
• For high school teachers in the Philippines who
  are engaged in lesson study, they use textbooks,
  and other resources when textbooks are not
  adequate, to provide students with meaningful
  context in the learning of mathematics. Careful
  examination of textbooks can lead to professional
  learning
• In Singapore, where primary teachers are not
  specialists and many are not university
  graduates, textbooks in the 1980s were written in
  a way that such teachers can learn the
  mathematics content that they are teaching.

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How Do You Use Textbooks in Your Country?

• To Implement Education Reforms
• Malaysia went through a series of reforms in
  mathematics education from traditional approach
  to modern math to integrated approach to use of
  English to reverting back to use of national
  language. Each time textbooks were changed to
  reflect the reforms.

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How Do You Use Textbooks in Your Country?

• To Integrate Technology
• There is a clear direction in almost every
  country that there are attempts to utilize
  technology in mathematics learning.
• In Indonesia, the acknowledgement that present
  textbooks are not learner-friendly (e.g. lack of
  visuals) is an impetus for projects on using
  technology to facilitate learning.
• Russia had agencies to identify, evaluate,
  recommend technology tools for teachers and
  provide teacher training in this area.
• It is evident from all the country presentations
  that technology has yet to be harnessed optimally
  to help students learn. The integration of
  textbooks and technology is not yet seamless.
  Technology is more an add-on.