Teaching through Dual Treatments and Its Influence on Students’ Successful Mathematical Thinking

Abstract

There are some concepts, processes and other mathematical situations that are included in mathematics textbooks of the elementary education, and they exist simultaneously with their dual concept, process and dual situation. In teaching process these dualities should be treated always together, as they exist in our world. In order to understand how this is realized, in this paper is described teaching of elementary mathematics through dual treatments and in details, the implementation of dual treatments in the first grade of elementary education. The results of the study with 53 students of the first grade of elementary education, after the implementation of teaching through dual treatments showed a crucial statistic effect on students’ successful mathematical thinking.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n6p191