A comparative study on the problem situation level of the old and new college entrance examination mathematics questions:Taking mathematics national paper of the 2023 college entrance examination as an example
The question situation is the main field for students to solve problems.A comparative study on the situa-tion level of the new and old college entrance examination questions is helpful to gain insight into the direction of problem situation reform in the new college entrance examination.Taking the 2023 college entrance examination national mathe-matics paper as the object,the three-dimension feature analysis framework of mathematical problem situation level im-proved by Chen Zhihui was adopted,and the problem situation level of the test questions was compared and analyzed from the perspective of the old and new college entrance examination.The results show that in terms of question situation types,both the new and old college entrance exam questions contain a variety of situations,and of which are mainly pure mathematical situations;in terms of mathematical characteristics,the operation difficulty of the new college entrance ex-amination is relatively lower than that of the old one;in terms of representation features,the proportion of diversified representational features in the new college entrance examinations is higher than that in the old one;in terms of task char-acteristics,the old and new college entrance examinations have great consistency in emphasizing the task requirements of"conceptual understanding"and"problem solving".In general,there is little difference between the new and old college en-trance exam questions in terms of students'cognitive difficulty.According to the research findings,the following insights are obtained:reasonably create the types of test problem situations,and explore the educational value of problem situa-tions;enrich the teaching situation of mathematics problems and stimulate students'interest in mathematics learning;strengthen the situational representation of diversified test questions to help students get the key information for problem solutions.
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