英文摘要 |
This paper reports on a longitudinal panel study from a developmental research project aimed at investigating two junior high school mathematics teachers’ teaching practice in developing conjecturing-inquiry teaching over an entire academic year. This study collected qualitative data through classroom observation, in-depth interviews, teachers’ reflections, and students’ focus group interviews. In addition, the data were analyzed by means of open coding, axial coding, and the constant comparative method of analysis. The results revealed that case teacher T1 based his conjecturing-inquiry teaching on the well-established socio-mathematical norms within students’ inquiry community. Furthermore, with the improvement of students’ conceptualization in mind, the teacher used a strategic problem-posing approach to help students construct mathematical knowledge in specialized, systemized and generalized contexts. On the other hand, case teacher T2 built a conjecturing-inquiry teaching model consisting of three phases: keeping records, inferring patterns, and argumentation. In addition, the teacher also maintained a favorable classroom environment for discussion and helped students to develop their mathematical thinking skills in small group inquiry activities, by using strategies such as specialization, systematization, generalization and refutation. Finally, this study integrated the teaching practice of the two case teachers, and put forward a research-based mathematical conjecturing-inquiry teaching model. |