This study examined a corpus of 10 widely used prealgebra and algebra textbooks, with the goal of investigating whether they exhibited a symbol precedence view of mathematical development as is found among high school teachers. The textbook analysis focused on the sequence in which problem-solving activities were presented to students. As predicted, textbooks showed the symbol precedence view, ...

Science instructors and textbook authors often use analogies to help their students use information they already understand to develop an understanding of new concepts. This study reports the results of an analysis of the use of analogies in eight biochemistry textbooks, which included textbooks written for one-semester survey biochemistry courses for non-majors; two-semester courses for chemis...

introduction: quoting an article in well-known textbooks is held as a credit for that paper. the numbers of iranian publications mentioned in endodontic textbooks have increased during recent years. the aim of this investigation was to evaluate the number of iranian articles quoted in eminent endodontic text books. methods and materials: three known textbooks ( ingle’s endodontics, seltzer and ...

The study of history through school textbooks arguably is still the predominant medium for classroom learning in England. History textbooks are a powerful influence upon the development of the attitudes, values, perceptions and understanding of young citizens. Nowhere is the role of textbooks in personal orientation more pronounced than in textbooks on the Second World War. The paper analyses t...

Introduction A recent review of a several popular textbooks in cultural anthropology has confirmed my suspicion that there is a significant gap between what linguistic anthropology means to me and what it means to my colleagues in cultural anthropology (and probably in other sub-fields as well). One easy explanation of this gap would be to say that the authors of these textbooks are simply unin...