The Development of Mathematical Literacy through Learning Implementation based on Open Approach: A Case Study of Teaching Fundamental Principles of Counting to Grade 10 Students
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Mathematical literacy is one of necessary competency to apply mathematics to real-life situations. The results of PISA assessment demonstrated that the level of mathematical literacy of Thai students are below the mean score of OECD. The research aimed to examine the effects of learning implementation based on open approach in the topic of fundamental principles of counting on mathematical literacy of Grade 10 students. The participants were 14 students in grade 10 of a small sized high school in Sukhothai Province in the second semester of 2019 academic year. This study was based on action research with three cycles of PAOR which took 12 hours. The instruments used in the research were lesson plans, worksheets and mathematical literacy test. Data were analyzed by an analytic scoring. The results revealed that, most students were at good level of mathematical literacy that mean student can 1) identify mathematics problems in real life, 2) apply theorem, definition, rules or formulas to find the ways for solving the problems, and 3) interpret results on the context of the real-life situation. Therefore, the teacher should enhance students’ mathematical literacy through choosing or designing various types of open-ended situations that related to real life, giving a chance for students to discuss about the reasonableness of the solution and problem solving processes.
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