Content analysis of the third elementary math book based on problem solving planning With the help of Shannon entropy

Askarirobati, Gholam Hosein; Khalili Kelaki, Zari

Content analysis of the third elementary math book based on problem solving planning With the help of Shannon entropy

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Secretary of Mathematics, Education of Tehran Province, Tehran, Iran.

² Elementary Teacher, Education of Tehran Province, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Problem solving is the core of the math curriculum. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the content of the third-grade elementary math textbook based on problem solving planning. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of type, which is done by quantitative content analysis and is a unit of analysis of questions, exercises and problems. In analyzing the data obtained from this study, frequency and Shannon entropy were used. The statistical population of this research was the whole third grade elementary mathematics textbook in the academic year 1398-1399. To analyze the content of the book, a list of different types of problems was used by Reese et al., Which includes eight different types of problems that should be considered in problem solving planning. The results of this analysis showed that in different parts of the content of the book, proper distribution and uniformity of different types of problems have not been used.

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