Junior High School Students Mathematics Study Of Cultivating The Ability Of Hands-on Practice

With the deepening of the reform of mathematics classroom teaching,“hands-on approach”has been widely used in the mathematics teaching, and itsadvantages have been fully affirmed. However, neither teachers nor studentsattached much importance to the “hands-on approach” when they used the newlypublished mathematics textbooks for juniors. Few teachers are willing to use themethod in their teaching practice. The students’ hands-on ability is at relatively lowlevels in junior high schools. In our country, the research on this practice is mainlycarried out in primary schools, but seldom in high schools. In this case, this studyaims to explore the ways to develop “hands-on” ability of junior students inmathematics teaching.By researching on the theory and practice of domestic and internationalmathematics teaching, I found that “hands-on approach” was used in foreigncountries more extensively and intensively. Though few theories can be obtained,you can find it used in both curriculum standards and classroom instructions, most ofwhich are from teaching practice. Meanwhile, I analyzed the requirements about“hands-on ability” in mathematics textbooks for juniors and the entranceexaminations, as well as the current math curriculum and teaching reform.As application of the research, I made a survey of“hands-on approach”performed in present teaching practice among the teachers and students in ourschool. I found that very few students used this method. Instead, they tried to solvethe problems by means of imagination and simple freehand drawing, leading toconfusing solution to the problems, nonstandard answers and low accuracy.Based on researching literature, paper folding and jigsaw are chosen to explorehow to develop the students’hands-on ability in mathematics teaching practice.Here are the tips: reinforcing plausible reasoning, simplifying problems, learning fromexperience.A term’s practice has shown that our research has been crowned with success. The students“hands-on”ability have gradually improved with the help of theirteachers. Compared with the students in other classes, the students in theexperimental class performed better in their ways to solve problems and accuracy.What’s more, this ability improves the students’ overall mathematical ability as wellas their grades.