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Om elevers upplevelser av stöd och hjälp i matematik
MathematicsIndividual helpMotivationSituated learningSupport for learningMatematikIndividuell hjälpMotivationSituerat lärandeStöd för lärande
The study's purpose is to describe students' experiences of help and support in mathematics. To investigate this, I adopted the questions: What does it mean, according to the students, to get "help and support in mathematics?" Are there differences in the description of help and support depending on the age of the students? What different kinds of help and support do students feel that they get from their math teachers? What different kinds of help and support would they like to have? The study is based on a qualitative method, group interviews, with three groups of students, one from each stage of primary school in one municipality in Sweden. The students were at the time of the interview in grade 3, 5 and 8. The interviews were analysed from a sociocultural perspective. The results show that what the students primarily consider as the meaning of help and support it is to get individual support from their teacher. Students feel that other forms of help and support also are provided by teachers; such as the opportunity to work in a group with peers, and that the teachers motivate students in different ways. An example of support the students say they want to have a larger extent of is the opportunity to use a tool for understanding. Here the older students emphasize various ICT tools.