Mathematical praxeologies in Chinese and Singaporean senior high school textbooks: the case of probability

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This paper presents a so-called praxeological analysis of probability content in secondary school textbooks, based on the notion of praxeology from the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic. The first chapter on probability in one Chinese and one Singaporean mathematics textbook is selected to analyse separately the tasks and corresponding techniques exposed in examples or proposed as exercises, and the theoretical parts round in the exposition of the main text. It can be found that the two textbooks contain three shared types of tasks and demonstrate similar techniques to solve the same tasks. The difference is that PEP covers more types of tasks, while DM provides more examples and exercises. Also, both textbooks indeed discuss mathematical theory, not just explaining how to solve tasks, but PEP has more formal theoretical description based on set theoretical notation.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date2023
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event13th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education - Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 10 Jul 202314 Jul 2023
Conference number: 13
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Conference

Conference13th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education
Number13
LocationAlfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
CountryHungary
CityBudapest
Period10/07/202314/07/2023
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