ABSTRACT

The nature of the arithmetic word problems found in maths textbooks influences the way students develop their ability to solve them, as teachers use the books in their classes quite frequently. Given that students are better able to reason through and solve authentic problems that are contextualized in situations familiar to them, and that different international assessments have shown the students in Singapore to be more skilled at problem-solving than their Spanish counterparts, this study compares the level of authenticity of the problems included in the primary school textbooks from the most frequently used publishers in both countries. The results show that the books from Singapore contain problems with a higher degree of authenticity than the Spanish textbooks at all school levels, thus providing students with better opportunities to learn how to solve problems through reasoning.

摘要

在数学教科书中发现的算术单词问题的性质会影响学生发展解决问题的能力的方式，因为老师在课堂上经常使用这些书。鉴于学生能够更好地推理和解决在他们所熟悉的情况下与情境相关的真实问题，并且不同的国际评估表明，新加坡的学生比西班牙的学生更有能力解决问题，因此本研究比较了两国最常用的出版商提供的小学教科书中所包含问题的真实性。结果表明，与所有学校级别的西班牙教科书相比，新加坡教科书所包含的问题具有更高的真实性，