HOW TO TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE METACOGNITIVE SKILLS FOR STUDENTS

HOW TO TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE METACOGNITIVE SKILLS FOR STUDENTS

Le Binh Duong duong1109@gmail.com Political University Commune Thach Hoa, Thach That District, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Summary: 
Metacognition and metacognitive skills are important aspects in the development of student’s thinking and knowledge building. This work has overviewed the concept, structure and contents of metacognition and metacognitive skills, following the pioneers in the research area of metacognition and metacognitive development as John Flavell, Ann Lesley Brown, Annemie Desoete, Gregory Schraw, and Manita Van der Stel. In the framework of this study, the author has focused on 4 metacognitive skills that are most important for learning mathematics: Prediction, Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation; then detailed mathematics learning process from the point of view of metacognition development. An example on the expectation value of random variables has been used to demonstrate the above obtained conclusion.
Keywords: 
Metacognition
metacognitive skills
Mathematics Teaching
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