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Cooperative learning in mathematics : payoffs and pitfalls
Cooperative learning in mathematics : payoffs and pitfalls
| dc.contributor.author | Ng, Mei-Peng | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-10T19:11:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-10T19:11:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-00-00 | |
| dc.description | Abstract : This qualitative study explored personal perceptions of six students who undergone fourteen weeks of cooperative learning in a college algebra class. In-depth interviews were used as data collection tools in this study. The verbatim transcripts were analyzed with nine themes emerging. The purpose of this study is to implement cooperative learning skills among students in an American Degree Transfer Program undergraduate mathematics class in a private higher education institution in Malaysia. Cooperative learning or “small-group learning” used in mathematics class makes learning mathematics enjoyable. It encourages healthy team spirit. This study shows that cooperative learning lead also to other payoffs such as increase cognitive reinforcement, socialization as well as positive interaction among class mates and positive interdependence among the students. The drawback of cooperative learning included reverting to unhealthy competitive ways. Low achieving students experience a sense of alienation and were demoralized by the insensitive attitudes of some high achieving students. Some weak students were too dependent on the higher achieving students. Overall, lecture style coupled with cooperative learning is more effective than just lecture style alone. | |
| dc.description | Full text access : Research & development Centre, Taylor’s University, Malaysia (e-mail: GTDLSRnD@taylors.edu.my) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/handle/123456789/465 | |
| dc.subject | Group work in education–Malaysia | |
| dc.subject | Small groups–Study and teaching | |
| dc.title | Cooperative learning in mathematics : payoffs and pitfalls | |
| dspace.entity.type | Research-Abstracts | |
| local.identifiers | vital:403 | |
| local.identifiers | valet-20131204-091547 | |
| local.identifiers | Items in this repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated | |
| local.language | English | |
| local.school | American Degree Transfer Program |