Abstract

The Foundation of the Romany Students’ Algebra Knowledge through Text-Based Problems

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  • Seeing the learning difficulties of the 7th-grade Romany students from Diosig, I tried to utilise a method that I partly used in mixed Hungarian-Romany classes in the previous school years, and it proved to be efficient

  • Because the Romany students lack any methods of solving text-based problems, they acquired some arithmetical solving methods in the course of the experimental teaching

  • I had in mind the teachings of Lázár Péter, a teacher of Romany birth, according to which we need to get to know each Romany child individually, and to build the school around them, because their education can be an efficient process only in this way. (Bordács-Lázár, 2002)

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Seeing the learning difficulties of the 7th-grade Romany students from Diosig, I tried to utilise a method that I partly used in mixed Hungarian-Romany classes in the previous school years, and it proved to be efficient. Because the Romany students lack any methods of solving text-based problems, they acquired some arithmetical solving methods in the course of the experimental teaching When they were able to solve text-based problems in an arithmetical way, and they were able to work correctly with variable, too, only followed the solving of equations algebraically through textbased problems. This was not enforced on the students, but we used such problems whose solving produce in them the need for a shorter writing mode, an easier deduction, which cause the algebraic solving method. I had in mind the teachings of Lázár Péter, a teacher of Romany birth, according to which we need to get to know each Romany child individually, and to build the school around them, because their education can be an efficient process only in this way. (Bordács-Lázár, 2002)

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