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The Research on the Knowledge Representation of Disciplinary Domain Knowledge and Mathematics Learning

LI Chang-hong, CAI Xiao-yue, HE Bo-feng   

  1. Educational college of Guangzhou university, Guangzhou Guangdong 510006
  • Online:2010-05-15 Published:2010-05-15

Abstract: Teaching experiments can be carried out with units of the disciplinary domain knowledge which are adapted and reorganized from the disciplinary knowledge in mathematics,on the basis of structural characteristics of domain knowledge.Some questionnaires and in-depth interviews which contained 215 students at second year at middle school were used to investigate the effect which is caused by disciplinary domain knowledge in knowledge representation and also did some research on the relationship between knowledge representation and mathematical achievements.The results are as follows:(1) disciplinary domain knowledge can significantly improve the comprehensive and overall level of declarative knowledge representation; (2) disciplinary domain knowledge can significantly improve students'procedural knowledge representation in comprehensive,automation,organization and overall level; (3) the three elements of cognitive structure,declarative knowledge representation and procedural knowledge representation are significantly correlated with students' mathematics achievements; (4) excellent students are significantly better than average students and poor students with respect to the accuracy and overall level of declarative representation and the organization and overall level of procedural knowledge representation.

Key words: disciplinary domain knowledge, domain knowledge teaching, mathematics learning, knowledge representation, cognitive structure

CLC Number: 

  • G442
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