Identifying ways to improve student performance on context-based mathematics tasks

Ariyadi Wijaya (1) , Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen (2) , Michiel Doorman (2)

1 Yogyakarta State University
2 Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht]

This paper reports the Context-based Mathematics Tasks Indonesia (CoMTI) project that was aimed at getting a better insight into Indonesian students' low performance on context-based tasks and identifying ways to improve it. The project addressed three main issues: (1) Indonesian students' difficulties when solving context-based tasks; (2) possible reasons for students' difficulties ; and (3) offering students opportunity-to-learn and testing its effect on student performance. These issues were investigated in four consecutive studies. The studies revealed that the students' difficulties are related to students' opportunity-to-learn.

Mots clés: Context-based mathematics tasks; modelling; low achievement; Indonesian students; opportunity-to-learn

Domaines: Education; Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Ariyadi Wijaya, Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Michiel Doorman. Identifying ways to improve student performance on context-based mathematics tasks. CERME 9 - Ninth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education; ERME, Feb 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.944-950. ⟨hal-01287272⟩