Mathematics Textbooks of Primary 1 Used in Singapore: A Multimodal Analysis of Its Intersemiosis

Nugroho, Aylanda Dwi

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“…An Indonesian study (Nugroho, 2010) focused on how modes were used in Year 1 Singaporean textbooks and how they assisted in explaining mathematical concepts. Nugroho (2010) studied writing, images and mathematical symbols and found that these modes complement each other.…”

Section: Mathematics Textbooks Subtraction and Multimodalitymentioning

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Potential for Meaning Making in Mathematics Textbooks

Norberg

2019

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Textbooks are a common teaching tool widely used in children's mathematical education. Comparative studies of textbooks have focused on different aspects, such as content, mathematical symbols and so on. However, a multimodal approach to textbook research-that is, studying how writing, images, mathematical symbols, etc. interact-is sparse. This study analyses 40 exercises from 17 Swedish Year 1 (children 7-8 years) textbooks using a multimodal approach with a focus on subtraction as an arithmetic operation. The aim was to describe and analyse how subtraction in Swedish Year 1 mathematics textbooks can be understood using a multimodal approach. The results show that it is sometimes possible to solve an exercise without focusing on the mathematical content that the exercise is designed to offer. Writing, images, mathematical symbols, speech and moving images are used differently within the same textbook and between textbooks. The results also show that there are considerable similarities between the exercises in printed and digital textbooks, with some exceptions. The examples in the study indicate that three different approaches are needed when working with these exercises, which implies great complexity in children's meaning making in their work with mathematics textbooks. This could negatively impact children's access to beneficial learning situations. Therefore, this study could contribute to a larger awareness of the complexity in question, which, by extension, may contribute to the development of beneficial learning situations in mathematics education, especially regarding subtraction.

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Section: Mathematics Textbooks Subtraction and Multimodalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential for Meaning Making in Mathematics Textbooks

Norberg

2019

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A Semiotic Analysis of Cyber Emoticons (A Case Study of Kaskus Emoticons in the Lounge Forum at Kaskus-the Largest Indonesian Community)

Sukyadi

Setyarini

Junida

2011

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Kaskus emoticons have been used widely in cyber, whether in Kaskus forum or blogs and other Instant Messengers (IMs). The use of emoticon in the forum is believed to be the latest way in communication among members. The use of emoticons is necessary to overcome the constraints of online communication, the need of being expressive and time limited. Kaskus emoticons are culturally unique because they are created by Indonesian online users without resorting to western style emoticons. Even though emotion is something universal, the way of how certain community represents it through emoticons is interesting to note. This study is aimed at exploring the significance of Kaskus emoticons in the Lounge forum at Kaskus, the Largest Indonesian Community. The analysis is rooted on semiotics, particularly Roland Barthes' orders of signification involving five emoticons appearing in the Lounge forum at the site. The findings show that the emoticons have meaning and functions as a way to communicate, particularly in the online forum. It serves as a means of (visual) communication between users to emphasize the statement in online communication, and to show mood of one's state of feeling so that others can easily acquaint his thoughts. More to the point, emoticons are treated as alteration for some words and their meanings are associated with linked circumstances.

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Mathematics Textbooks of Primary 1 Used in Singapore: A Multimodal Analysis of Its Intersemiosis

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 publications

Potential for Meaning Making in Mathematics Textbooks

Potential for Meaning Making in Mathematics Textbooks

A Semiotic Analysis of Cyber Emoticons (A Case Study of Kaskus Emoticons in the Lounge Forum at Kaskus-the Largest Indonesian Community)

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