A Study on the Analysis of the Middle School Mathematics Textbooks from the Perspective of Mathematizing

This study was conducted to compare and analyze the differences between the authorized textbooks and the alternative textbooks at middle school in Korea. By analyzing alternative mathematics textbooks from the point of view of mathematizing, the researcher focused on the teaching and learning examples presented in the alternative textbooks to find out if they induced guided reinvention to students or helped to form mathematical knowledge from the real world contexts. According to the analysis of the textbook outline, the alternative textbook tended to induce students’ voluntary activities and then define mathematical terms and explain concepts, while the authorized textbooks were opposite. When analyzing the contents of alternative textbooks from the point of view of ‘mathematizing’, both the ‘number and operations’ area and the ‘probability and statistics’ area induced the learners to reinvent mathematical knowledge and used the real contexts.