Correct Answer - Option 4 : relate Mathematical concepts to everyday life of the child
Textbooks play an important role in mathematics education because of their close relation to classroom instruction. They identify the topics and order them in a way students should explore them. They also attempt to specify how classroom lessons can be structured with suitable exercises and activities.
- In some sense, they provide an interpretation of mathematics to teachers, students, and their parents. Moreover, textbooks have a prominent position in curriculum reforms and are considered the most important tool for the implementation of a new curriculum.
The following are the qualities of a good math textbook:
- It should be by the aims and objectives of the teaching-learning process.
- It should be well illustrated and there should be a diagram and figures wherever needed.
- The content should be up-to-date.
- It should provide sufficient materials to motivate the students to solve problems in the classroom as well as in daily life.
- The problems should relate to the real-life needs.
- It should foster the right attitude towards self-study and self-reliance among pupils.
- It should promote logical and psychological arrangement of contents.
- It should be done by promoting project works, field works and laboratory works.
- It should promote the use of analytic, synthetic, inductive-deductive, problem-solving, and heuristic approaches to teaching.
A good Mathematics textbook at the primary level should relate Mathematical concepts to the everyday life of the child.
