Practice And Rethinking Of "Heuristic-research" Mathematics Teaching Method

A new reform experiment in the elementary education curriculum is now under its way in the whole country and neo-curriculum is prevailing among teachers and students. There is greater innovation and breakthrough in the neo-curriculum than that in the present one in the aspects of its system, function, structure, content, performance, evaluation and management, etc. The current curriculum reform demands that the teachers change not only their teaching ideas but also their long-standing instruction-centered teaching method. Meanwhile, it provides conditions and opportunities for the improvement of teachers. Therefore, the current curriculum reform embodies both a challenge and a rare opportunity for the improvement of millions of teachers. With the approach of performance study as its main method of study, the author conducted a yearlong profound study on the issue of how the teachers in the secondary schools change their teaching styles in the curriculum reform. The author, therefore, draws some ideas from the study that, under the situation of neo-curriculum, teachers' performing of new teaching styles in the teaching of mathematics in secondary schools will have an essential effect on helping the establishment of new teaching ideas and the transformation of mathematics teaching style. This thesis includes three sections. Section one: This part illustrates the major problems and shortcomings existing in the traditional mathematics teaching styles. This section analyzes the challenges that the mathematics teachers in secondary schools would meet with after giving an introduction of the notion of neo-curriculum of mathematics and of the characteristics of the new curriculum of mathematics at the full-time compulsory educational stage. Section two: It suggests the new mathematics teaching style with the specific property of using "heuristic and research" method under the notion of neo-curriculum. It then suggests the basic strategies, which help realize the change from traditional teaching style into innovative one. Section three: The third section illustrates the real experimental procedure of performing the innovative mathematics teaching style with "heuristic and research" properties. In addition, it analyzes and discusses the results in the experiment, and then gives a relatively deep reflection on the study of the change of the mathematics teaching style in secondary schools under the notion of neo-curriculum.