Promoting the Effect of Intuition Concepts in Mathematics with Online Teaching and Web Analogy Materials

Abstract

This study designed web analogy materials of intuition concepts in eight mathematics conceptions, including angle, discount, ratio, length and area, area and volume, infinite, division, and sequence of number. We sampled thirty-three 6th grade elementary students as experimental group whose ages are between 12 and 13. They used broadband network at home and accepted online teaching and web analogy materials. We sampled other thirty-two students as contrast group and they received normal teaching and materials. The process of the online teaching course was one topic in one and half hour of every week learning at home, and one class of reviewing web analogy materials in computer room at school after four topics. Both groups accepted pretest and posttest to investigate the effect of promoting the intuition concepts in mathematics. After online teaching with web analogy materials, the effect of experimental group was significant difference to contrast group, and the experimental explanation variance was 33.4%.