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Implication and Suggestion
Present by:Winnona Simon 2008408048Nur Latifah Yaamat
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What is culture?
Can learning and teaching mathematics influence byculture?
What is CULTURE??
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Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary of CurrentEnglish (1974)
Cultivation of crops
Culture of micro
All arts, beliefs, social institutions, etc. characteristics ofa
community or race
a system of shared knowledge, beliefs, values andpractices of a
community or a group of people
Culture of mathematics learning and teaching The shared
knowledge, beliefs, values and practices of
how and what mathematics learning and teachingshould be.
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Culture One
- Refers to the art andliterature which isusually associate
withculture
Culture Two
Pattern of thinking, feeling andacting which is
learnedthroughout a persons lifetimeManifest in 4 ways:1. Symbols:
words,
gesture,picture,object2. Heroes: persons, alive or
dead, real or imaginary, serveas models for
appropriatebehaviours
3. Rituals: collective activities4. Values: how one ought
orought not to behave orpreference for certain statesof affairs
over others.
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School community is made up of 4 parties School
administration
Teachers
Students
Parents
Macro and Micro influence
Comes fromcommunitywhere schoollocated and the
whole schoolculture
Classroomculture,shaped bymathematicsteachers andstudents
MacroMicro
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1. Language of communication for teaching andlearning
mathematics
2. Cultural practices especially the home environment
3. The leading role of administrators4. Cultural beliefs and
values of mathematics teaching
and learning
5. Teacher philosophy and images of mathematics
learning and teaching6. Social and parental expectation
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Vygotsky (1978) : socio-cultural psychology 2 main cultural
process
Signs and symbols: e.g. language crucial tool for thoughtand for
concept learning
Social interaction with knowledgeable members of theculture
plays a significant role in an individuals cognitivedevelopment
Counting Chinese/Japanese vs. Bahasa/English e.g
multiplication
table Local dialect rhyme
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Home culture may hinder or enhance astudents learning in
school.
Respect eldersMisconception happenUnlikely to become critical
thinkers
Genders bias
Parents encouragement
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Five common views
Symbolic
Mainlyconsisting of
numbers
&calculation
Utilitarian
Important anduseful
Problem solving Absolutist
Enigmatic
beauty andmysterious natureof mathematics
very definite,consisting of a set
of absolute and
unquestionabletruth
enjoying the
satisfaction of
solving problems
in mathematics
