MODEL-ELICITING ACTIVITIES LEARNING APPROACH TO ENCOURAGE A MATHEMATICAL COMMUNICATION ABILITY IN PATTERN OF THE SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS

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Natthaphon Makjeen
Sirinapa Kijkuakul

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The objectives of the research were to 1) study a learning management approach taking Model – Eliciting Activities into account that encourages mathematical communication ability and 2) study the effect of promoting mathematical communication ability in Patterns of 15 sixth-grade students in a small school in Sukhothai Province. The research instruments were lesson plans, reflective forms, learning notes, interview forms, observations, and a written communicative test. The data were analyzed through content analysis and checked for trustworthiness by method triangulation.  


The results showed that 1) the Model – Eliciting Activities management needed four steps as follows: (1) reading an article and answering questions; (2) organizing a problematic situation for learning; (3) proposing solutions; and (4) evaluating those solutions. The teachers have to choose and design the situation, as written in the article, to suit the age of the students and to connect with their real lives, and use simple provocative questions to correspond to the situation. These then encourage the students to communicate mathematical concepts by writing and speaking about them. And 2) after learning according to the Model – Eliciting Activities, students had developed mathematical communication ability in writing and mathematical communication ability in speaking.

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