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Urhan, Selin; Bülbül, Ali – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
Our study aims to determine how Habermas' construct of rationality can serve to identify and interpret the difficulties experienced by university students in the mathematical problem-solving process. To this end, a problem which required modelling and solving a differential equation was used. The problem-solving processes of university students…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, College Students
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Coles, Alf; Sinclair, Nathalie – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
In this paper, we propose a way of thinking about ritual that is new to mathematics education research and that challenges the more common approaches to ritual that dichotomise thinking and acting. We argue for a material, monist conceptualisation of ritual, which we refer to as ritualisation. In the context of early number work, we show that…
Descriptors: Repetition, Rote Learning, Mathematics Education, Numbers