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RESEARCH PAPER
Praxeology review: Comparing Singaporean and Indonesian textbooks in introducing the concept of sets
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Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, West Java, INDONESIA
Publication date: 2023-02-09
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2023;19(2):em2229
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Singapore has successfully implemented mathematics textbooks as a widely referenced part of
the curriculum. Nevertheless, not all countries can fit into the offered concept. There are gaps and
other interesting factors to investigate, especially regarding the comparison with Indonesia. This
study aimed to compare the concepts of Singaporean and Indonesian textbooks on a more
specific topic, namely the concept of mathematical sets. The comparative study was conducted
on two official handbooks of the two countries, which were reviewed in praxeology (T, τ, θ, and
Θ). The research data were limited to the topic of the concept of sets in the two books, ignoring
other material as part of the depth of the study. Qualitative research with a hermeneutic
phenomenology approach was chosen as an alternative method, and this study is a study at the
prospective stage of the entire series of Indonesian versions of didactical design research. The
data showed a uniqueness, characterizing the textbooks’ quality from each perspective. The
similarity and specialization of the textbooks were indicated by the type of task regarding the
definition of sets (T1) and the form of the praxis block. There were striking differences in the
complexity of task design in influencing the perceptual, memorial, introspective, and a priori. The
characteristics of material presentation considered the students’ culture and character in each
country, making these textbooks worthy of reference. Although studying math topics was quite
tricky, a praxeological study of textbooks from both countries provided a new perspective on how
task design played an essential role in making material presentation more acceptable to students.
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