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Ferretti, Ralph P. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1994
This response to Norman Bray (EC 609 160) analyzes the methodology and findings of the original study and concludes that studies of strategy production must look at not only the mentally retarded child's cognitive capacities in problem solving but also the social and contextual conditions that affect the child's representation and use of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Context Effect, Environmental Influences, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedLevain, Jean-Pierre – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1992
Discusses how students at the end of the French primary school-cycle (10- to 11-year-old pupils) resolve multiplication and related division problems within an assessment perspective taking into account the 3 factors of the problem's representational structure, the numerical values used, and the context of the problem statement. (25 references)…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Context Effect, Division, Elementary Education
Atweh, Bill, Ed.; Watson, Jane, Ed. – 1992
The Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia (MERGA) was officially constituted in 1980. In 1984, MERGA produced the first review of the mathematics education research carried out in that region. This book is the third in that series of research reviews. An overview provides the context in which the Australian research was conducted and…
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculators, Cognitive Development, Context Effect
Peer reviewedTirosh, Dina; Stavy, Ruth – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Reports a study to examine secondary school students' (n=200) responses to two figurally and spatially similar problems from mathematics and science that require different responses before and after instruction. Results indicated that most students gave the same response to both questions. Reasons for this pattern are discussed. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Grade 10
Download full textBodenhausen, Judith – 1992
The "Thinking Mathematics" approach to teaching is guided by two ideas: (1) that learning requires knowledge upon which new problems and situations are interpreted and (2) that mathematics skills are applied in context. This paper reports research that examined whether teaching mathematics students in high school remedial classes can be…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Computation
Millroy, Wendy Lesley – Journal for Research in Mathematics, 1992
The researcher conducted a six-month ethnographic study as an apprentice carpenter in Cape Town, South Africa, to document the valid mathematical ideas that are embedded in the everyday woodworking activities of a group of carpenters. A secondary objective was to examine and to give a firsthand account of the teaching and learning of mathematical…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adult Programs, Apprenticeships, Carpentry
