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Roan, Elizabeth; Czocher, Jennifer – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
Literature typically describes mathematization, the process of transforming a real-world situation into a mathematical model, in terms of desirable actions and behaviors students exhibit. We attended to STEM undergraduate students' quantitative reasoning as they derived equations. Analysis of the meanings they held for arithmetic operations (+, -,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Task Analysis, Mathematical Models, STEM Education
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Ng, Kelvin H. R.; Hartman, Kevin; Liu, Kai; Khong, Andy W. H. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
During the semester break, 36 second-grade students accessed a set of resources and completed a series of online math activities focused on the application of the model method for arithmetic in two contexts 1) addition/subtraction and 2) multiplication/division. The learning environment first modeled and then supported the use of a scripted series…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic, Problem Solving
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Eriksson, Gota – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2008
This article focuses on spontaneous and progressive knowledge building in ''the arithmetic of the child.'' The aim is to investigate variations in the behavior patterns of eight pupils attending a school for the intellectually disabled. The study is based on the epistemology of radical constructivism and the methodology of multiple clinical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Special Schools