Frontiers in Educational Research, 2025, 8(7); doi: 10.25236/FER.2025.080702.
Qiqi Xiao1
1College of Mathematics and Statistics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan, 453007, China
High-quality teaching is the way to implement key competencies, and good instructional design is the foundation for realizing high-quality teaching. Aiming at the traditional teaching design misunderstandings of "activity-oriented teaching design" and "indoctrination learning", combined with the core idea of UbD theory, we constructed a framework of reverse instructional design for high school mathematics based on UbD theory. We carried out a reverse instructional design for the unit "Derivatives" in the high school of People's Education Press Version A (PEP Version A). It provides a reference for mathematics educators to design instruction that focuses on the core mathematical knowledge. The unit of "Derivatives" is used as an example of reverse instructional design, which provides a reference for math educators' instructional design and an idea for the implementation of the key competencies of mathematics.
UbD, Instructional Design, Derivatives
Qiqi Xiao. A Study of Reverse Instructional Design Based on UbD Theory: An Example of "Derivatives". Frontiers in Educational Research (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 7: 8-15. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.080702.
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