A Comparative Study On The Integration Of Mathematics Culture Into High School Math Textbooks

The Standard of Mathematics Curriculum for Senior High School(2017 edition)clearly points out that the goal of mathematics curriculum in senior high school should be to improve students interest in learning mathematics,cultivate students' good mathematical literacy,and recognize the scientific value,application value,cultural value and aesthetic value of mathematics through the study of mathematics curriculum in senior high school.Many scholars began to study mathematical culture.This paper selects the "Statistics and Probability" module of high school mathematics textbook published by Beijing Normal University Press,People's Education Publishing House and Jiangsu Education Publishing House as the research text to compare the penetration of mathematics culture in the textbook,and adopts the literature research method and content analysis.the distribution of mathematical culture columns,the distribution of mathematical culture content,and the application of mathematical culture.The columns of mathematics culture are divided into five categories according to the actual situation,non-text,introduction,example,exercises and reading.mathematical culture content is divided into four categories,mathematics history,mathematics and real life,mathematics and science and technology,mathematics and humanities and art.Mathematical culture is divided into mathematical history and other mathematical cultures when studying the application of mathematical culture,that is,other mathematical cultures include mathematics and real life,mathematics and science and technology,and mathematics and humanities.The application of mathematics history includes embellishment,add-on copy,compliant and refactoring.Other mathematical cultures are divided into external,separable and inseparable.The conclusions based on this study are as follows.First,from the perspective of column distribution,the mathematics culture in the four versions of textbooks is mainly concentrated in the problem part,and the settings in the column distribution are not balanced,because the mathematical culture content of the four versions in the problem part exceeds the mathematics.Half of the total number of cultures,but the distribution pattern in other columns is not much different.Second,from the perspective of the distribution of mathematical culture content,the number of mathematical cultures involved in the B version of the People's Education Edition is the smallest,only 163,and the other three versions are not much different,there are more than 200.At the same time,the content of mathematics culture is unevenly distributed.Among the four versions of textbooks,mathematics and cultural content are most distributed in mathematics and real life,followed by mathematics and science and technology,especially in mathematics and humanities,almost negligible.And in the four versions of textbooks in mathematics and real life,they pay more attention to public life and pay less attention to students' personal life.The attention to students' personal life is also narrow,most of them are students' height,weight,test scores,birthdays,etc,while in the public life par,the Beijing Normal University edition pays more attention to economic and entertainment life,such as family,salary income,news reports,sales of shopping malls,the A version of the People's Education Edition focuses more on professional life and social production,such as corporate recruitment,parts quality testing,etc,the People's Education Edition B version of more entertainment,economy,transportation involves more.The Jiangsu Education Edition infiltrates the living environment,economic income,product quality etc.The four versions are broad in terms of public life,but the different versions have slightly different focuses.At the same time,the distribution of the four versions of the mathematical culture content in the statistical and probabilistic parts is also different.The application of the history of mathematics,mathematics and real life in the statistical part of the textbooks of Edition A of the People's Education Press is just the opposite to the other three research editions of textbooks.At the same time,the four versions of the textbooks have less connection with other related disciplines,such as biology,chemistry,physics,geography and so on.Third,from the perspective of the application of mathematics culture,the mathematics history in the textbooks of People's Education Edition A,People's Education Edition B,and Jiangsu Education Edition adopts an additional method.The Beijing Normal University textbooks mainly use dotted or Additional,the four versions of the use of mathematics history are lower,the content of the textbook is mostly only a portrait of a mathematician or a simple introduction to life,the historical background of the mathematical concept is more through the form of reading,in addition,The contents of the history of mathematics in the four editions are mainly concentrated in the non-textual part of the textbook,that is,most of them appear in the textbook in the form of narration and reading materials.The other mathematical cultures studied in this paper are mainly separable,that is,the mathematical culture background and mathematical problems can be separated.Based on the above conclusions,the corresponding three point textbooks are proposed.(1)Balanced development between mathematical dimensions.(2)Enhance the connection between mathematics culture and other disciplines.(3)Improve the level of application of mathematical culture content.