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An exploratory study on STEM education through math trails with digital technology to promote mathematical literacy


  • This study aims to investigate how the use of math trail activities and digital technology in STEM education can help to improve mathematical literacy. Exploratory design research involving teachers and eighth-grade students in a junior high school was conducted. A STEM Trails application was developed, several trails were designed, and students performed the activities. Participant observation, interviews, questionnaires, exams, and worksheets were used to collect data. Organization, annotation, data description, and statistical tests were carried out for data analysis. Based on the results of the analysis, an educational program was designed to provide students with valuable STEM experiences. This program was supported by GPS-based applications that serve as tools for students to develop mathematical literacy by solving STEM-related problems in the surrounding environment. As a result, the program promoted students' mathematical literacy. This study discovered a link between the program's instrumental approaches and the mathematical literacy developed throughout the instrumentation process. The findings of this study demonstrate that the integration of digital technology in STEM-based math trails can effectively enhance learners' mathematical literacy through contextualized and interactive learning experiences. It is recommended that future research should extend the implementation of STEM Trails to a wider range of learning environments and investigate its impact on students' skills and abilities in greater depth.

    Citation: Adi Nur Cahyono, Riza Arifudin, Rozak Ilham Aditya, Bagus Surya Maulana, Zsolt Lavicza. An exploratory study on STEM education through math trails with digital technology to promote mathematical literacy[J]. STEM Education, 2025, 5(1): 41-52. doi: 10.3934/steme.2025003

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  • This study aims to investigate how the use of math trail activities and digital technology in STEM education can help to improve mathematical literacy. Exploratory design research involving teachers and eighth-grade students in a junior high school was conducted. A STEM Trails application was developed, several trails were designed, and students performed the activities. Participant observation, interviews, questionnaires, exams, and worksheets were used to collect data. Organization, annotation, data description, and statistical tests were carried out for data analysis. Based on the results of the analysis, an educational program was designed to provide students with valuable STEM experiences. This program was supported by GPS-based applications that serve as tools for students to develop mathematical literacy by solving STEM-related problems in the surrounding environment. As a result, the program promoted students' mathematical literacy. This study discovered a link between the program's instrumental approaches and the mathematical literacy developed throughout the instrumentation process. The findings of this study demonstrate that the integration of digital technology in STEM-based math trails can effectively enhance learners' mathematical literacy through contextualized and interactive learning experiences. It is recommended that future research should extend the implementation of STEM Trails to a wider range of learning environments and investigate its impact on students' skills and abilities in greater depth.



    The notion of extriangulated categories, whose extriangulated structures are given by E-triangles with some axioms, was introduced by Nakaoka and Palu in [1] as a simultaneous generalization of exact categories and triangulated categories. They gave a bijective correspondence between Hovey twin cotorsion pairs and admissible model structures which unified the work of Hovey, Gillespie and Yang (see [2,3,4]). Exact categories and triangulated categories are extriangulated categories, while there exist some other examples of extriangulated categories which are neither exact nor triangulated, see [1,5,6].

    Motivated by the ideas of projective covers and injective envelopes, Auslander and Buchweitz analyzed the framework in which the theory of maximal Cohen-Macaulay approximation can be developed. They systematically established their theory in abelian categories, which is known as Auslander-Buchweitz approximation theory. Up to now, Auslander-Buchweitz approximation theory has many important applications, see for example [7,8,9,10]. In particular, Becerril and coauthers [7] have revisited Auslander-Buchweitz approximation theory. From the notions of relative generators and cogenerators in approximation theory, they introduced the concept of left Frobenius pairs in an abelian category, established a bijective correspondence between left Frobenius pairs and relative cotorsion pairs, and showed how to construct an exact model structure from a strong left Frobenius pair, as a result of Hovey-Gillespie correspondence applied to two complete cotorsion pairs on an exact category (see [2,3]).

    The aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of left Frobenius pairs in an extriangulated category and give a method to construct more admissible model structures from strong left Frobenius pairs. For this purpose, we need to establish a bijective correspondence between left Frobenius pairs and cotorsion pairs in an extriangulated category under certain conditions.

    The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we recall the definition of an extriangulated category and outline some basic properties that will be used later. In Section 3, we first introduce the concept of left Frobenius pairs (see Definition 3.4), and then study relative resolution dimension and thick subcategories with respect to a given left Frobenius pair. As a result, we give a bijective correspondence between left Frobenius pairs and cotorsion pairs in an extriangulated category under certain conditions (see Theorem 3.12). In Section 4, we give a method to construct the admissible model structure from a strong left Frobenius pair under certain conditions (see Theorem 4.4), which generalizes a main result of Hu et al. in [5]. This is based on the bijective correspondence established in Section 3.

    Throughout this paper, C denotes an additive category. By the term "subcategory" we always mean a full additive subcategory of an additive category closed under isomorphisms and direct summands. We denote by C(A,B) the set of morphisms from A to B in C.

    Let X and Y be two subcategories of C, a morphism f:XC in C is said to be an X-precover of C if XX and C(X,f):C(X,X)C(X,C) is surjective for all XX. If any CY admits an X-precover, then X is called a precovering class in Y. By dualizing the definitions above, we get notions of an X-preenvelope of C and a preenveloping class in Y. For more details, we refer to [23].

    Let us briefly recall some definitions and basic properties of extriangulated categories from [1]. We omit some details here, but the reader can find them in [1].

    Assume that E:Cop×CAb is an additive bifunctor, where C is an additive category and Ab is the category of abelian groups. For any objects A,CC, an element δE(C,A) is called an E-extension. Let s be a correspondence which associates an equivalence class to any E-extension δE(C,A). This s is called a realization of E, if it makes the diagram in [1,Definition 2.9] commutative. A triplet (C,E,s) is called an extriangulated category if it satisfies the following conditions.

    1. E:Cop×CAb is an additive bifunctor.

    2. s is an additive realization of E.

    3. E and s satisfy certain axioms in [1,Definition 2.12].

    In particular, we recall the following axioms which will be used later:

    (ET4) Let δE(D,A) and δE(F,B) be E-extensions realized by

    respectively. Then there exists an object EC, a commutative diagram

    in C, and an E-extension δE(E,A) realized by which satisfy the following compatibilities.

    (i) realizes E(F,f)(δ),

    (ii) E(d,A)(δ)=δ,

    (iii) E(E,f)(δ)=E(e,B)(δ).

    (ET4)op Dual of (ET4).

    Remark 2.1. Note that both exact categories and triangulated categories are extriangulated categories (see [1,Example 2.13]) and extension closed subcategories of extriangulated categories are again extriangulated (see [1,Remark 2.18]). Moreover, there exist extriangulated categories which are neither exact categories nor triangulated categories (see [1,Proposition 3.30], [6,Example 4.14] and [5,Remark 3.3]).

    Lemma 2.2. [1,Corollary 3.12] Let (C,E,s) be an extriangulated category and

    an E-triangle. Then we have the following long exact sequences:

    where natural transformations δ and δ are induced by E-extension δE(C,A) via Yoneda's lemma.

    Let C,E be as above, we use the following notation:

    A sequence is called a conflation if it realizes some E-extension δE(C,A). In this case, x is called an inflation, y is called a deflation, and we write it as

    We usually do not write this "δ" if it is not used in the argument.

    Given an E-triangle we call A the CoCone of y:BC and C the Cone of x:AB.

    An E-triangle sequence in C [11] is displayed as a sequence

    over C such that for any n, there are E-triangles and the differential dn=gn1fn.

    An object PC is called projective if for any E-triangle and any morphism cC(P,C), there exists bC(P,B) satisfying yb=c. Injective objects are defined dually. We denote the subcategory consisting of projective (resp., injective) objects in C by Proj(C) (resp., Inj(C)).

    We say C has enough projectives (resp., enough injectives) if for any object CC (resp., AC), there exists an E-triangle (resp., satisfying PProj(C) (resp.,IInj(C)).

    Remark 2.3. (1) If (C,E,s) is an exact category, then the definitions of having enough projectives and having enough injectives agree with the usual definitions.

    (2) If (C,E,s) is a triangulated category, then Proj(C) and Inj(C) consist of zero objects.

    Definition 2.4. [1,Definition 4.2] Let X, Y be two subcategories of C. Define full subcategories Cone(X,Y) and CoCone(X,Y) of C as follows.

    (1) C belongs to Cone(X,Y) if and only if it admits a conflation XYC satisfying XX and YY;

    (2) C belongs to CoCone(X,Y) if and only if it admits a conflation CXY satisfying XX and YY. $

    Suppose that (C,E,s) is an extriangulated categories with enough projectives and injectives. For a subcategory BC, put Ω0B=B, and for i>0, we define ΩiB inductively by

    ΩiB=Ω(Ωi1B)=CoCone(Proj(C),Ωi1B).

    We call ΩiB the i-th syzygy of B (see [12,Section 5]). Dually we define the i-th cosyzygy ΣiB by Σ0B=B and ΣiB=Cone(Σi1B,Inj(C)) for i>0.

    Let X be any object in C. It admits an E-triangle

    where I0Inj(C) (resp., P0Proj(C)). In [12] the authors defined higher extension groups in an extriangulated category having enough projectives and injectives as Ei+1(X,Y)E(X,ΣiY)E(ΩiX,Y) for i0, and they showed the following result:

    Lemma 2.5. [12,Proposition 5.2] Let be an E-triangle. For any object XB, there are long exact sequences

    From now on to the end of the paper, we always suppose that (C,E,s) is an extriangulated categories with enough projectives and injectives.

    In this section, we introduce the concept of Frobenius pairs and show that it has very nice homological properties, which are necessary to construct cotorsion pairs from Frobenius pairs. At first, we need introduce the following definitions.

    Definition 3.1. Let X be a subcategory of C.

    1. For any non-negative integer n, we denote by ˇXn (resp., ^Xn) the class of objects CC such that there exists an E-triangle sequence

    CX0Xn1Xn (resp., XnXn1X0C)

    with each XiX. Moreover, we set ˇX=n=0ˇXn, ˆX=n=0^Xn.

    2. For any CC, the X-resolution dimension of C is defined as

    resdimX(C) : = min{nN:C^Xn}.

    If C^Xn for any nN, then resdimX(C)=.

    For a subcategory X of C, define X={YC|Ei(X,Y)=0foralli1,andallXX}. Similarly, we can define X.

    Definition 3.2. Let X and W be two subcategories of C. We say that

    (1) W is a cogenerator for X, if WX and for each object XX, there exists an E-triangle with WW and XX. The notion of a generator is defined dually.

    (2) W is X-injective if WX. The notion of an X-projective subcategory is defined dually.

    (3) W is an X-injective cogenerator for X if W is a cogenerator for X and WX. The notion of an X-projective generator for X is defined dually.

    (4) X is a thick subcategory if it is closed under direct summand and for any E-triangle

    in C and two of A,B,C are in C, then so is the third.

    The following theorem unifies some results of [13] and [9]. It shows that any object in ˆX admits two E-triangles: one giving rise to an X-precover and the other to a ˆW-preenvelope.

    Theorem 3.3. Let X and W be two subcategories of C. Suppose X is closed under extensions and W is a cogenerator for X. Consider the following conditions:

    (1) C is in ^Xn.

    (2) There exists an E-triangle with XCX and YC^Wn1.

    (3) There exists an E-triangle with XCX and YC^Wn.

    Then, (1)(2)(3). If X is also closed under CoCone of deflations, then (3)(2), and hence all three conditions are equivalent. If W is X-injective, then φC is an X-precover of C and ψC is a ˆW-preenvelope of C.

    Proof. The proof is dual to that of [14,Proposition 3.6].

    Definition 3.4. A pair (X,W) is called a left Frobenius pair in C if the following holds:

    (1) X is closed under extensions and CoCone of deflations,

    (2) W is an X-injective cogenerator for X.

    If in addition W is also an X-projective generator for X, then we say (X,W) is a strong left Frobenius pair.

    Example 3.5. (1) Assume that C=R-Mod is the category of left R-modules for a ring R. A left R-module N is called Gorenstein projective [23,24] if there is an exact sequence of projective left R-modules

    P=P1P0P0P1

    with N=Ker(P0P0) such that HomR(P,Q) is exact for any projective left R-module Q. Let GP(R) be the full subcategory of R-Mod consisting of all Gorenstein projective modules and P(R) the subcategory of R-Mod consisting of all projective modules. Then (GP(R),P(R)) is a strong left Frobenius pair.

    (2) Let C be a triangulated category with a proper class ξ of triangles. Asadollahi and Salarian [15] introduced and studied ξ-Gprojective and ξ-Ginjective objects, and developed a relative homological algebra in C. Let GP(ξ) denotes the full subcategory of ξ-Gprojective objects and P(ξ) denotes the full subcategory of ξ-projective objects. Then (GP(ξ),P(ξ)) is a strong left Frobenius pair.

    (3) Let T be a triangulated category, and let M be a silting subcategory of T with M=addM, where addM is the smallest full subcategory of T which contains M and which is closed under taking isomorphisms, finite direct sums, and direct summands. Then (T0,M) is a left Frobenius pair by [14,Corollary 3.7] and [16,Proposition 2.7], where T0:=n0M[n]M[1]M.

    (4) In [17], the authors showed that if (X,Y) is a complete and hereditary cotorsion pair in an abelian category A and Y is closed under kernels of epimorphisms, then (G(X)Y,XY) is a strong left Frobenius pair, where G(X) is the class of objects M in A satisfying that there exists an exact sequence

    X=X1X0X0X1

    with each term in X such that MKer(X0X1) and HomA(X,Q) is exact for any object Q in XY.

    Lemma 3.6. Let (X,W) be a left Frobenius pair in C.Given an E-triangle with XX, then CˆX if and only if KˆX.

    Proof. The proof is dual to that of [14,Lemma 3.8].

    Proposition 3.7. Let (X,W) be a left Frobenius pair in C. The following statements are equivalent for any CˆX and non-negative integer n.

    (1) resdimX(C)n.

    (2) If UXn1X0C is an E-triangle sequence with XiX for 0in1, then UX.

    Proof. (2)(1) is trivial.

    (1)(2). Let C be in ˆX. Then by Theorem 3.3, we have an E-triangle sequence WnW1XC with XX and WiW for 1in. Since WX, it is easy to see that ˆWX. Thus we have En+i(C,Y)Ei(Wn,Y)=0 for all i1 and YˆW. If UXn1X0C is an E-triangle sequence with XiX for 0in1, then we have Ei(U,Y)En+i(C,Y)=0 for all i1 and YˆW. Note that UˆX by Lemma 3.6. Hence there exists an E-triangle with XUX and YUˆW by Theorem 3.3. It follows that the above E-triangle splits. Hence UX.

    If X is a subcategory of C, then we denote by Thick(X) the smallest thick subcategory that contains X. The following result shows that for a left Frobenius pair (X,W) in C, ˆX is an extriangulated category. In particular, if C is a triangulated category, then ˆX is the smallest triangulated subcategory of C containing X and is closed under direct summands and isomorphisms.

    Proposition 3.8. Let (X,W) be a left Frobenius pair in C. Then Thick(X)=ˆX.

    Proof. For any E-triangle we need to check that if any two of A,B and C are in ˆX, then the third one is in ˆX. Since ˆX is closed under extensions by the dual of [14,Corollary 3.7], it suffices to show that if BˆX, then AˆX if and only if CˆX. We first show that if A and B are in ˆX, then CˆX. Since BˆX, we have an E-triangle with XBX,YBˆW. By (ET4)op, we obtain a commutative diagram

    It follows that LˆX as A and YB are in ˆX. Therefore CˆX.

    Suppose now B and C are in ˆX. It follows from Lemma 3.6 that LˆX. Applying the just established result to the E-triangle one has that AˆX.

    Suppose C1C2ˆX. We proceed by induction on n=resdimX(C1C2). If n=0, then C1 and C2 are in X.

    Suppose n>0. There is an E-triangle with XX and resdimX(K)=n1. By (ET4)op, we obtain the following commutative diagrams:

    Hence there is an E-triangle

    By Lemma 3.6, L1L2ˆX, and Proposition 3.7 shows that resdimX(L1L2)n1. By the induction hypothesis, L1 and L2 are in ˆX. It follows that C1 and C2 are in ˆX. Hence ˆX is closed under direct summands. Thus Thick(X)=ˆX.

    Definition 3.9. [1,Definition 4.1] Let U, V C be a pair of full additive subcategories, closed under isomorphisms and direct summands. The pair (U, V) is called a cotorsion pair on C if it satisfies the following conditions:

    (1) E(U,V)=0;

    (2) For any CC, there exists a conflation VCUCC satisfying UCU and VCV;

    (3) For any CC, there exists a conflation CVCUC satisfying UCU and VCV. $

    Lemma 3.10. Let X and W be two subcategories of C such that W is X-injecive. Then the following statements hold.

    (1) If W is a cogenerator for X, then W=XX=XˆW.

    (2) If W is a cogenerator for X, then ˆW=ˆXX.

    Proof. The proof is dual to that of [14,Proposition 4.2].

    The following result gives a method to construct cotorsion pairs on extriangulated categories.

    Proposition 3.11. Let (X,W) be a left Frobenius pair in C. Then (X,ˆW) is a cotorsion pair on the extriangulated category Thick(X).

    Proof. Note that Thick(X) is an extriangulated category by [1,Remark 2.18]. It suffices to show that ˆW is closed under direct summands by Theorem 3.3. Note that ˆW=ˆXX by Proposition 3.10. Since Thick(X) = ˆX is closed under direct summands by Proposition 3.8, so is ˆW. This completes the proof.

    Now we are in a position to state and prove the main result of this section.

    Theorem 3.12. Let C be an extriangulated category. The assignments

    (X,W)(X,ˆW)and(U,V)(U,UV)

    give mutually inverse bijections between the following classes:

    (1) Left Frobenius pairs (X,W) in C.

    (2) Cotorsion pairs (U,V) on the extriangulated category Thick(U) with VU.

    Proof. Let (X,W) be a left Frobenius pair. Then (X,ˆW) is a cotorsion pair on the extriangulated category ˆX by Proposition 3.11. Note that Thick(X)=ˆX and ˆWX. Then (X,ˆW) is a cotorsion pair on the extriangulated category Thick(X) with ˆWX.

    Assume (U,V) is a cotorsion pair on the extriangulated category Thick(U) with VU. For UU, we have an E-triangle with VV and UU. Thus VThick(U) as Thick(U) is a thick subcategory. Since (U,V) is a cotorsion pair on the extriangulated category Thick(U), it follows from [1,Remark 4.6] that U is closed under extensions in Thick(U). It implies that VU. Thus VUV. Note that VU. It follows that UV is an U-injective cogenerator. Let be an E-triangle with U1,U2U. Then we have an exact sequence E(U1,V)E(Z,V)E2(U2,V) for any VV. Since VU, E(Z,V)=0. Note that ZThick(U) as Thick(U) is a thick subcategory. Thus there exists an E-triangle $ with UZU and VZV as (U,V) is a cotorsion pair on the extriangulated category Thick(U). Therefore the above E-triangle splits by E(Z,V)=0. Hence ZU. So U is closed under CoCone of deflations. Note that U is closed under extensions in Thick(U). It follows that U is closed under extensions in C. Thus (U,UV) is a left Frobenius pair in C.

    Based on the above argument, it is enough to check that the compositions

    (U,V)(U,UV)(U,^UV) and (X,W)(X,ˆW)X

    are identities. Since UV is an U-injective cogenerator for U, ^UV=ˆUU=Thick(U)U where the first equality is due to Proposition 3.10 and the second equality is due to Proposition 3.8. It follows from [1,Remark 4.4] that Thick(U)U=V. Thus ^UV=V. This completes the proof.

    As a consequence of Theorem 3.12 and Remark Remark 2.3, we have the following result.

    Corollary 3.13. [7,Throrem 5.4] Let A be an abelian category with enough projectives and injectives. The assignments

    (X,W)(X,ˆW)and(U,V)(U,UV)

    give mutually inverse bijections between the following classes:

    (1) Left Frobenius pairs (X,W) in A.

    (2) Cotorsion pairs (U,V) on the exact category Thick(U) with VU.

    As an application, we have the following result in [10].

    Corollary 3.14. [10,Theorem 3.11] Let C be a triangulated category. The assignments

    (X,W)(X,ˆW)and(U,V)(U,UV)

    give mutually inverse bijections between the following classes:

    (1) Left Frobenius pairs (X,W) in C.

    (2) Co-t-structures (U,V) on the triangulated category Thick(U).

    Proof. Note that any triangulated category can be viewed as an extriangulated category, and its projective objects and injective objects consist of zero objects by Remark Remark 2.3.

    Let (X,W) be a left Frobenius pair. By Theorem 3.12, (X,ˆW) is a cotorsion pair on the triangulated category Thick(X). Since X is closed under CoCone of deflations and extensions, it is easy to see that X[1]X. Hence (X,ˆW) is a co-t-structure on the triangulated category Thick(X).

    Assume (U,V) is a co-t-structure on the triangulated category Thick(U). It is easy to see that (U,V) is a cotorsion pair on Thick(U) with VU. Hence the corollary follows from Theorem 3.12.

    Definition 3.15. [18,Definition 2.1] Let R and S be rings. An (S-R)-bimodule C=SCR is semidualizing if:

    (1) SC admits a degreewise finite S-projective resolution.

    (2) CR admits a degreewise finite R-projective resolution.

    (3) The homothety map SSSSγHomR(C,C) is an isomorphism.

    (4) The homothety map RRRγRHomS(C,C) is an isomorphism.

    (5) Ext1S(C,C)=0=Ext1R(C,C).

    Definition 3.16. [18,Definition 3.1] A semidualizing bimodule C=SCR is faithfully semidualizing if it satisfies the following conditions for all modules SN and MR.

    (1) If HomS(C,N)=0, then N=0.

    (2) If HomR(C,M)=0, then M=0.

    Definition 3.17. [18,Definition 4.1] The Bass class BC(S) with respect to C consists of all S-modules N satisfying

    (1) Ext1S(C,N)=0=TorR1(C,HomS(C,N))=0.

    (2) The natural evaluation homomorphism νN:CRHomS(C,N)N is an isomorphism.

    Remark 3.18. Let C=SCR be a faithfully semidualizing module. Then Bass class BC(S) is an exact category by [18,Theorem 6.2] and BC(S) has enough projectives and injectives by [20,Remark 3.13].

    By [18], the class of C-projective left S-modules, denoted by PC(S) the collection of the left S-modules of the form CRP for some projective left R-module P. Recall from [20] that a left S-module M is called C-Gorenstein projective if there is an exact sequence of left S-modules

    W=W1W0W0W1

    with each term in PC(S) such that NKer(W0W0) and both HomR(W,Q) and HomR(Q,W) are exact for any object Q in PC(S). It should be noted that C-Gorenstein projectives defined here are different from those defined in [19] when S=R is a commutative Noetherian ring (see [20,Proposition 3.6]).

    For convenience, we write GC-Proj(S) for the classes of C-Gorenstein projective left S-modules. By [20,Proposition 3.5], one has that GC-Proj(S) BC(S). As a consequence of Theorem 3.12, we have the following result.

    Corollary 3.19. Let C=SCR be a faithfully semidualizing module. Then

    (1) (GC-Proj(S),PC(S)) is a strong left Frobenius pair in BC(S).

    (2) (GC-Proj(S),^PC(S)) is a cotorsion pair on ^GCProj(S).

    Proof. Since PC(S) is projectively resolving and PC(S)PC(S) by [18,Corollary 6.4] and [18,Theorem 6.4], GC-Proj(S) is closed under kernels of epimorphisms and direct summand by [21,Theorem 4.12] and [21,Proposition 4.11]. Hence (GC-Proj(S),PC(S)) is a strong left Frobenius pair in BC(S). (2) follows from Theorem 3.12.

    In this section, we shall use our results in Section 3 to construct more admissible model structures in extriangulated categories. At first, we need to recall the following definition.

    Definition 4.1. [1,Definition 5.1] Let (S, T) and (U, V) be cotorsion pairs on C. Then P=((S, T), (U, V)) is called a twin cotorsion pair if it satisfies E(S,V)=0. Moreover, P is called a Hovey twin cotorsion pair if it satisfies Cone(V,S) = CoCone(V,S). $

    In [1] Nakaoka and Palu gave a correspondence between admissible model structures and Hovey twin cotorsion pairs on C. Essentially, an admissible model structure on C is a Hovey twin cotorsion pair P=((S, T), (U, V)) on C. For more details, we refer to [1,Section 5]. By a slight abuse of language we often refer to a Hovey twin cotorsion pair as an admissible model structure.

    Lemma 4.2. Let (X,W) be a strong left Frobenius pair in C. Then (W,ˆX) is a cotorsion pair on the extriangulated category Thick(X).

    Proof. Since WX, one has E(W,ˆX)=0. For any CˆX, there exists an E-triangle

    with XCX and YCˆW by Theorem 3.3. Since W is a generator for X, we have an E-triangle with WW and XX. By (ET4)op, we obtain a commutative diagram

    It follows that ZˆX as X and YC are in ˆX. Note that Thick(X)=ˆX. The second column and E(W,ˆX)=0 show that (W,ˆX) is a cotorsion pair on Thick(X).

    Proposition 4.3. Let (X,W) be a strong left Frobenius pair in C. Then P=((W,ˆX),(X,ˆW)) is an admissible model structure on the extriangulated category Thick(X)

    Proof. By Theorem 3.12 and Lemma 4.2, we only need to check that Cone(ˆW,W)=CoCone(ˆW,W). It is obvious that Cone(ˆW,W)=ˆWCoCone(ˆW,W). Let CCoCone(ˆW,W). Then we have an E-triangle with YˆW and WW. By Theorem 3.3, one has that CˆX. Since E(W,ˆX)=0, it follows that C is a direct summand of Y. Note that ˆW is closed under direct summand by Proposition 3.11. Thus CˆW. Hence the equality Cone(ˆW,W)=CoCone(ˆW,W) holds.

    Theorem 4.4. Let (X,W) be a strong left Frobenius pair in C. If n is a non-negative integer, then the following statements are equivalent:

    (1) ^Xn=C.

    (2) P=((W,C),(X,^Wn)) is an admissible model structure on C.

    Proof. (1)(2). If ^Xn=C, then (W,C) is a cotorsion pair on C by Lemma 4.2 and (X,ˆW) is a cotorsion pair on C by Theorem 3.12. To prove (2), we only need to check that ^Wn=ˆW. Note that ^WnˆW is obvious. Let CˆW. Then there is an E-triangle with XCX and YC^Wn1 by Theorem 3.3. Since ˆW is closed under extensions, XCXˆW=W. Hence C^Wn implies ^Wn=ˆW.

    (2)(1). Since (X,^Wn) is a cotorsion pair on C, one has that C=^Xn by Theorem 33.

    As an application, we have the following result in [3].

    Corollary 4.5. [3,Theorem 8.6] Suppose R is a Gorenstein ring. Let GP(R) be the subcategory of R-Mod consisting of Gorenstein projective modules and P(R) the subcategory of R-Mod consisting of projective modules. Then ((P(R),R-Mod),(GP(R),^P(R)) is an admissible model structure on R-Mod.

    Proof. It follows from Example 3.5 and Proposition 4.3.

    Let n be a non-negative integer. In the following, we denote by GCProj(S)n (resp., PC(S)n) the class of modules with C-Gorenstein projective (resp., C-projective) dimension at most n

    Corollary 4.6. Let C=SCR be a faithfully semidualizing module. Then the following statements are equivalent:

    (1) GCProj(S)n=BC(S).

    (2) P=((PC(S),BC(S)),(GCProj(S),PC(S)n) is an admissible model structure on BC(S).

    Proof. It follows from Corollary 3.19 and Theorem 4.4.

    Let (C,E,s) be an extriangulated category and ξ a proper class of E-triangles. By [5], an object PC is called ξ-projective if for any E-triangle

    in ξ, the induced sequence of abelian groups $ is exact. We denote P(ξ) the class of ξ-projective objects of C. Recall from [5] that an object MC is called ξ-Gprojective if there exists a diagram

    in C satisfying that: (1) Pn is ξ-projective for each integer n; (2) there is a C(,P(ξ))-exact E-triangle in ξ and dn=gn1fn for each integer n such that MKn for some nZ. We denote by GP(ξ) the class of ξ-Gprojective objects in C. Specializing Theorem 4.4 to the case X=GP(ξ), we have the following result in [5].

    Corollary 4.7. [5,Theorem 5.9] Let (C,E,s) be an extriangulated category satisfying Condition (WIC) (see [1,Condition 5.8]). Assume that ξ is a proper class in C.Set Eξ:=E|ξ, that is,

    for any A,CC, and sξ:=s|Eξ.If n is a non-negative integer, then the following conditions are equivalent:

    (1) sup{ξ-GpdA|AC}n.

    (2) P=((P(ξ),C),(GP(ξ),Pn(ξ))) is an admissible model structure on (C,Eξ,sξ), where Pn(ξ)={AC|ξ-pdAn}.

    Proof. It is easy to check that (GP(ξ),P(ξ)) is a strong left Frobenius pair in (C,Eξ,sξ). Thus the corollary follows from Theorem 4.4.

    The authors are grateful to the referees for reading the paper carefully and for many suggestions on mathematics and English expressions. Yajun Ma was supported by NSFC (Grant No. 12171230). Haiyu Liu and Yuxian Geng were supported by the NSFC (Grants Nos. 12171206 and 12126424) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20211358).

    The authors declare there is no conflicts of interest.



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  • Author's biography Adi Nur Cahyono is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), Indonesia. He received his doctoral degree (Dr.rer.nat.) from J.W.v. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in the specialty of Didactics of Mathematics for his work on the MathCityMap Indonesia. He teaches, researches, and supervises undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students in teaching & learning geometry, mathematical modelling, and the uses of ICT in mathematics education. He is the founder and leader of the Centre for Research on Math Trails with Digital Technology (mathtrailslab.id); Riza Arifudin is a lecturer in Computer Science at Universitas Negeri Semarang. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Universitas Gadjah Mada. In addition to teaching, he is actively engaged in research in the fields of education and artificial intelligence systems, focusing on developing innovations and technological solutions to support modern learning. He is also an author, having written several books in his areas of expertise; Rozak Ilham Aditya is an Informatics Engineering graduate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), Indonesia. He is currently working as a programmer and data scientist at Universitas Negeri Semarang, specializing in Full-Stack Web Development and data analysis. He is also a freelance programmer and the founder of Zandspace, a software house based in Semarang, Indonesia, focusing on innovative software and system development; Bagus Surya Maulana is a Mathematics Teacher at Semarang Multinational School, Semarang, Indonesia. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics education from Universitas Negeri Semarang in International Class and graduated in 2024. During his college years, he was active as a Lecturer Assistant and Laboratory Assistant in lecture activities. He is currently doing his master's degree through Fast Track Program at Universitas Negeri Semarang, Mathematics Education Study Program. He also received a Merit-based Scholarship from Bank Indonesia in 2023. Now, he teaches Mathematics at an International School with Cambridge Curriculum; Zsolt Lavicza has worked on several research projects examining technology and mathematics teaching in classroom environments in Michigan and Cambridge. In addition, Zsolt has greatly contributed to the development of the GeoGebra community and participated in developing research projects on GeoGebra and related technologies worldwide. Currently, Zsolt is a Professor in STEM Education Research Methods at Johannes Kepler University's Linz School of Education. From JKU he is working on numerous research projects worldwide related to technology integration into schools; leading the doctoral programme in STEM Education; teaching educational research methods worldwide; and coordinates research projects within the International GeoGebra Institute
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