Scratch as an Environment for Learning the Coordinate System by Elementary School Students

Bibliographic Data

ID22046903
AuthorsAhlam Anabousy (0000-0002-3202-4088, Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education), Wajeeh Daher (0000-0002-8207-0250, Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, corresponding author), Ronit Bassan-Cincinatus (Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts)
Year2023
Volume13
Issue7
Pages724
Publication date2023-07-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducation Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2227-7102 • E-ISSN: 2227-7102
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/educsci13070724
OpenAlexW4384557477
LanguageEN
References cited25

The focal point of mathematics education research is to comprehend how students develop and consolidate their abstract mathematical knowledge. As goal of this research, the focus was on exploring the processes that sixth-grade students used to construct mathematical concepts linked to the coordinate system. In this study, a group of eight students was selected for research purposes. Video recordings were used to collect data through observations. The Abstraction in Context (AiC) framework was utilized to analyze the students’ processes that took place within the Scratch environment. The research findings suggested that the grade six students successfully constructed most of the anticipated knowledge components, consolidated their previous knowledge related to the zero concept, and began to develop new ones. Specifically, the students were able to construct the concept of zero as a number that is neither positive nor negative, as well as comprehend the X and Y axes

Abstraction · Epistemology · Focus group · Geometry · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Scratch · Sociology · Computer Science · Educational Games and Gamification · Mathematics · Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques · Psychology · Teaching and Learning Programming

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