Number Sense Ability for the Fourth Grade Foreign Spouses’ Children in Coastal Regions of Tainan

• Main Authors: Yu-jie Tsai, 蔡於潔
• Other Authors: Po-ya Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41104867454304241694

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 應用數學研究所碩士班 === 100 === The purpose of this research is to understand the number sense of foreign spouses’ children, and analyze the performance between different genders of them, and further to explore the performance made between these students and non-foreign spouses’ children. The number sense test was the main tool used in this research, 97 fourth-graders from 6 public primary schools in coastal regions of Tainan were selected and participated in this research, 36 of them are foreign spouses’ children. After completion of questionaire, descriptive analysis and independent T-test were used in analyzing the quantitative data. Based on the statistical analysis, the results of this research are as follow： 1. There is a significant difference between the number sense components for foreign spouses’ children. They performed best in “the ability of understand the relation in the meaning and figure of the figure” and did worst in “using benchmarks”. 2. There is no vast difference in the number sense result between different genders of foreign spouses’ children. 3. There is an obvious difference between foreign spouses’ children and non-foreign spouses’ children in general 4. There is an obvious difference between foreign spouses’ children and non-foreign children on the number sense components. Non-foreign spouses’ children performed better than foreign spouses’ children in “the ability of understanding the meaning of numbers and the relationship between them ”, and “understanding the operation influence in numbers.”