Abstract
This study employed the social semiotic method to analyze the 9th grade textbook in Jordan. Through analyzes three texts-related major aspects: intellectual function, interpersonal function, and textual function. The results showed that math is abstract, and assertive, and that math is located in a self-independent realm, with its own mathematical beings and with the existence of an official and far relationship between the book and the student. The math textbook tends to show the students as if they are merely ordered implementers.
Highlights
In the past decade or so, the students’ math performance was a source of worry for the teachers (Chiesi & Caterina, 2010; Pape & Wang, 2003; Schoen, Cebulla, Finn & Fi, 2003; Torbeyns, Schneider, Xin & Siegler, 2015)
When we look at the mathematical text and find that the subject is not a human being; that at the level of the intellectual function it expresses the image of mathematics as absolute and has nothing to do with human existence, while at the level of the interpersonal function and the same indicator there is a disappearance The actor means that the relationship between the author and the learner is formal
The math textbook embodied mathematics as if it is a realm with its own objects and beings, and that the math objects are able to carry out the math processes along without the human’s help
Summary
In the past decade or so, the students’ math performance was a source of worry for the teachers (Chiesi & Caterina, 2010; Pape & Wang, 2003; Schoen, Cebulla, Finn & Fi, 2003; Torbeyns, Schneider, Xin & Siegler, 2015). One of the hypothesized reasons for the poor performance is the textbooks that are used as the main source for math teaching in schools. This is true as the math textbooks are widely accepted as a commonly used source in math teaching. The study of (Hiebert et al, 2003) found that 91–100% of the sample the teachers in many countries largely depend on the math textbook. The study of (Rababah & Miqdadi, 2017) that investigated the compliance of Jordan’s reformed mathematics textbooks for first-graders
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