Implementation of Middle School Mathematics Teachers’ Origami-Based Lessons and Their Views about Student Learning

Year 2019, Volume: 38 Issue: 2, 154 - 171, 24.12.2019

Tuğba Uygun

Abstract

In the case
study, the occurrence of student learning types in the origami-based
mathematics classrooms was investigated based on teachers’ teaching. In the
quantitative part of the study, the teaching of middle school mathematics
teachers (MSMT) were observed to compare the different learning types based on
their levels of constructivist-based teaching performances. Qualitative data
were collected through interviews, observations, and field notes in
origami-based mathematics lessons and then analyzed. The findings of the study
illustrated that the existence of learning types represented by students in the
origami-based lessons differentiated based on the teachers’ levels of
constructivist-based teaching.

Keywords

constructivist-based teaching, learning types, middle school mathematics teachers, origami

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