Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-54).

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-54). Also available in print.

Matematik anses vara ett av de viktigaste ämnena i den svenska skolan. Forskningen visar dock fallande resultat i matematikämnet och detta gäller särskilt elever med svenska som andraspråk. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad de sämre resultaten hos dessa elever beror på samt hur läraren bör arbeta för att främja andraspråkselevers matematikutveckling. Fokus ligger på elever i grundskolan som har ett annat modersmål än svenska. Detta är en komparativ litteraturstudie som har genomförts genom noggrann analys och jämförelse av ett antal vetenskapliga artiklar, avhandlingar och forskningsrapporter. Det studerade materialet är både internationell och nationell forskning som inte är äldre än från år 1990. Det finns ett antal aspekter som är kritiska för andraspråkselever och som lärare måste ta hänsyn till i sin matematikundervisning. Aspekter som kan försvåra matematikinlärningen för andraspråkselever är språkliga svårigheter, skillnader i det matematiska språkets uppbyggnad och hur man räknar, en främmande kontext i matematikuppgifterna samt lärarens och elevernas inställning.

<p>Students with foreign background do not reach the goals of mathematics education in the Swedish school to the same extent as students with a Swedish background, this is shown in a number of Swedish and international reports. Both Swedish and international research show that it takes many more years to learn a language so well that the student is capable of learning new school-related knowledge in this new language than just using the language for everyday speech. Students with foreign background are in danger of falling far behind their peers in school in for example mathematics where they language-wise are not able to acquire knowledge. One method for helping students with another native language than Swedish is to provide mathematics education in two languages, Swedish and the student's native language. In media a number of politicians have expressed negative and positive arguments about this method, the opponents have argued that the students' Swedish skills would be suffering. I have chosen to compare a school applying bilingual mathematics education and one which instead is working with a so-called study workshop (studieverkstad). This study focuses on grades in mathematics from grade 9 and results from the national tests in mathematics in grade 9, and two interviews with teachers, one teacher of mathematics and one mother-tounge language teacher. I have chosen to study grade and test statistics from these two schools during several years to see what effect is acquired by each method of working. The main finding of this study is that bilingual mathematics teaching tends to keep students' grades at a constant level while students' grades decrease when using the study workshop method.</p>

Students with foreign background do not reach the goals of mathematics education in the Swedish school to the same extent as students with a Swedish background, this is shown in a number of Swedish and international reports. Both Swedish and international research show that it takes many more years to learn a language so well that the student is capable of learning new school-related knowledge in this new language than just using the language for everyday speech. Students with foreign background are in danger of falling far behind their peers in school in for example mathematics where they language-wise are not able to acquire knowledge. One method for helping students with another native language than Swedish is to provide mathematics education in two languages, Swedish and the student's native language. In media a number of politicians have expressed negative and positive arguments about this method, the opponents have argued that the students' Swedish skills would be suffering. I have chosen to compare a school applying bilingual mathematics education and one which instead is working with a so-called study workshop (studieverkstad). This study focuses on grades in mathematics from grade 9 and results from the national tests in mathematics in grade 9, and two interviews with teachers, one teacher of mathematics and one mother-tounge language teacher. I have chosen to study grade and test statistics from these two schools during several years to see what effect is acquired by each method of working. The main finding of this study is that bilingual mathematics teaching tends to keep students' grades at a constant level while students' grades decrease when using the study workshop method.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This paper is an overview of current research on teaching mathematics. The question to answer through studying research on the matter is how are language development strategies used in mathematical learning? The subsequent questions that we posed were why is it important with language development to learn math, how do students learn the language in mathematics, how does the use of language affect the possibility to learn mathematic and finally how are multilingual students’ possibilities to learn mathematics affected? The method used is reading and discussing  various sources of research in the field, using a few key words and refining the search as sources are used to find new keywords.  Through the research we have been able to answer the posed questions. Our main question is impossible to answer in one sentence, but what can be said is that there are language development strategies that play a role in mathematics learning and that they may vary from school to school, or even teacher to teacher. It is clear, however, that language development and using the language in education is crucial for learning new concepts and to communicate ideas, solutions and understanding in mathematics. In order for this development to take place it is necessary to actively use and practise using the language during mathematics learning. The teacher plays an important role to communicate this precise language and to encourage its students to practise to use it in order to communicate effectively.