| Summary: | 博士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 國際文教與比較教育學系 === 103 === Grade 1-9 Curriculum features the theme of “connection”, meaning that students may know and use the connection between mathematics concepts to understand mutual connections and establishments for the production of a coherent whole, recognizing and applying mathematics to outside mathematical context. Textbook is the main teaching basis for a specific operation medium to express curriculum connotation. Therefore, this study aims to explore the difference of quantity and presentation of image-text between grade 1-6 mathematics textbooks connecting natural sciences and social sciences between Taiwan and Finland elementary schools. Research objects are “Kanghsuan version” mathematics textbooks in Taiwan’s grade 1-9 curriculum and “WSOY version Laskutaito in English” mathematics textbooks in Finland’s national core curriculum. This study
uses content analysis method and have obtained the following conclusions:
1. Finland elementary school’s mathematics textbook has more connections to natural science and social sciences than Taiwan.
2. Regarding subject design, Taiwan’s Kanghsuan version textbook connects to a single subject with more direct and simple subject designs; Finland’s Wsoy version textbook connects to several subjects for cross-subject integration with more complicated and elaborate subject designs.
3. Taiwan’s Kanghsuan version textbook connects to fewer material types and Finland’s Wsoy version connects to more vivid and multiple types with beautiful and delicate illustrations.
4. Finland Wsoy version textbook’s connections match mathematics requirements in different stages for subject designs from easy to difficult and less to widely, curriculum flexibility; subject designs in Taiwan’s Kanghsuan version textbook are inaccord with grade index in each volume are easy to be restricted.
5. Finland’s Wsoy version elementary mathematics textbook has more solid integration into social sciences localization and international materials than Taiwan’s Kanghsuan version.
Keywords: elementary school mathematics textbooks, “connection”theme
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