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Zolfaghari, Maryam – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand children's operations on fragmenting schemes while they are engaged with three different visual models, including circle, rectangle, and length model. This study was a sequential explanatory mixed method, which included two phases that happened sequentially with the dominant use of the quantitative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions, Numbers
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Rickard Östergren; Ulf Träff; Jessica Elofsson; Hugo Hesser; Joakim Samuelsson – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
The study set out to explore different mathematical difficulties among 877 second-grade children and to test the effect of memorization versus conceptual practices with number combinations. It used a latent profile analysis of baseline measurements of digit writing speed, number combination fluency, multidigit calculation, and number sense skills…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Mathematics, Difficulty Level, Mathematical Concepts
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De Keersmaeker, Karen; Van Hoof, Jo; Van Dooren, Wim – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Processing rational numbers is difficult for many children. The natural number bias is one possible explanation for why children struggle with rational numbers. It refers to the tendency to overgeneralize the properties of natural numbers. In this study, it is argued that in order to be successful in rational number tasks, individuals need to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Number Concepts
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Vlassis, Joëlle; Demonty, Isabelle – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
To date, of the many studies on early algebraic thinking, none, to our knowledge, has examined the relationships between algebraic thinking and negative numbers. Students encounter persistent difficulties in dealing with these numbers, and we believe that these could be addressed through the development of algebraic thinking. We are particularly…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Correlation
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Kapicioglu, Gülseren; Arikan, Elif Esra – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
This study aims to analyze the problem-posing skills of primary school mathematics teacher candidates with problem-posing experience and their views on problem posing. The case study, one of the qualitative studies, was used in the study. The study group is ten prospective elementary mathematics teachers who were selected using the purposive…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Ganayim, Deia; Ganayim, Shireen; Dowker, Ann; Olkun, Sinan – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2021
The study focuses on the effect of the lexical-syntactic structure on the patterns of errors by Arab first graders in tasks involving reading two-digit number and writing two-digit numbers to dictation. Children made few change or omission errors, indicating that they had little problem with the lexical aspects of the counting system. However,…
Descriptors: Arabs, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Syntax
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Viseu, Floriano; Pires, Ana Luísa; Menezes, Luís; Costa, Ana Maria – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
The use of different registers to represent mathematical concepts enhances understanding. For example, rational numbers can assume pictorial, symbolic and natural language representations and this kind of change improves learning. Based on these assumptions, a teaching experiment for the learning of rational numbers by 2nd grade students was…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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Norton, Anderson; Ulrich, Catherine; Kerrigan, Sarah – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2020
We introduce a methodology for diagramming the ways students use sequences of mental actions to solve mathematical tasks. We studied 12 pre-service teachers as they solved a set of fractions tasks, ranked by cognitive demand. We present the unit transformation graphs for one of those pre-service teachers, to illustrate how she experienced and met…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Sari, Mehmet Hayri; Herzog, Moritz; Olkun, Sinan; Fritz, Annemarie – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2021
Research has shown that a profound place value understanding is crucial for success in learning mathematics. At the same time, a substantial number of students struggles with developing a sustainable place value understanding. In this regard, two aspects of the place value system appear especially relevant: First, the knowledge of the decimal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Aljarrah, Ayman; Towers, Jo – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2021
In this article we show how students' productive struggle on a mathematical task can lead to collective mathematical creativity. We use observable (co)actions and interactions from a video record that features three Grade 6 students in a problem-solving session to document the emergence of collective creativity leading to a solution. We discuss…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Creativity, Task Analysis, Video Technology
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Smith, John P., III – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2018
Curricular analysis indicates that the U.S. students are introduced to multiplication in additive terms (as the replication of equal groups and repeated addition). But the virtue of this introduction for supporting students' understanding of the full range of multiplicative relationships is unclear. This paper reports an analysis of all grade 4…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Mathematics
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Bingham, Teri; Rodriguez, Regina Chanel – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2019
Transitioning from teaching whole number operations to teaching fraction operations can prove difficult, even for the seasoned mathematics teacher. However, with effective literacy practices, teachers can seamlessly shift their students to learning the rules for fractions. The implications can be a mastery of mathematical language used to describe…
Descriptors: Fractions, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
Murphy, Carol – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
This paper reports on exploratory research into visual imagery in the learning of early mathematics. It aims to present a theoretical position in relation to perceptual perspectives of visual imagery. Students' visual imagery is explored in one example of a teacher's use of a protocol to encourage students to replicate dot patterns. This example…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Spatial Ability, Visualization, Foreign Countries
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Nguyen, Huy Anh; Hou, Xinying; Stamper, John; McLaren, Bruce M. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
A challenge in digital learning games is assessing students' learning behaviors, which are often intertwined with game behaviors. How do we know whether students have learned enough or needed more practice at the end of their game play? To answer this question, we performed post hoc analyses on a prior study of the game "Decimal Point,"…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
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Nurnberger-Haag, Julie – Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
Practicing teachers as well as researchers, mathematicians, and teacher educators have offered opinions and theoretical critiques of the multiple models used to teach integer arithmetic. Few studies, however, have investigated what students learn with models or empirically compared affordances and constraints of integer models. This led me to…
Descriptors: Subtraction, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Criticism
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